Archive for the tag 'Wenlock Priory'
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
A Short Afternoon Jaunt…
… to Wenlock Priory
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 7th 2020
Filed under Anecdotes, Faith Foundations, Out & About
Wenlock Priory
Anecdotes and photos of my recent weekend away are coming soon…
For now I hope you enjoy some photos from my short walk in Wenlock Priory on Easter Tuesday.
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 25th 2019
Filed under Books, Science & Nature
The Biology of a Lichen
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
Filed under Gardens, Out & About
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 10th 2013
Filed under Gardens, Out & About
PhotoHunt – Drop
drop
noun, verb, dropped or dropt, drop·ping.
1. a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
2. the quantity of liquid contained in such a globule.
3. a very small quantity of liquid: I’ll have a little more tea, just a drop.
4. a minute quantity of anything: [...]
23 Comments CherryPie on Mar 2nd 2012
