Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Heritage
The original bridge that spanned the gap between the parish of Brosley and Sutton Maddock was constructed of wood leading to the adjacent inn being named ‘The Woodbridge‘.
The name ‘Woodbridge’ comes from the bridge adjacent to the pub which connects the parish of Brosley on the south bank of the river and Sutton Maddock on [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 5th 2013
Filed under Out & About
Enjoying the Sunshine, a photo by KirscheTortschen on Flickr.
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 1st 2013
An uncommon shape for a window.
More uncommon shapes can be found here.
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 1st 2013
Filed under This & That
Layers in an Auricula Theatre.
More layers can be found in the gallery.
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 29th 2013
A Light Exists in Spring
A light exists in spring
Not present on the year
At any other period.
When March is scarcely here
A color stands abroad
On solitary hills
That science cannot overtake,
But human nature feels.
It waits upon the lawn;
It shows the furthest tree
Upon the furthest slope we know;
It almost speaks to me.
Then, as horizons step,
Or noons report away,
Without the [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 15th 2013
Filed under Books, Science & Nature
I have always loved seeing lichen on stone walls and in churchyards but until I read Katherine Swift’s The Morville Year I had no idea how fascinating it really is:
A lichen consists of not one but two organisms living in symbiosis: a fungus, capable of withstanding extremes of temperature and drought but unable to photosynthesis, and an alga, which [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Feb 11th 2013
