Day 187 – Stately bells
“The foxglove, with it’s stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells.” – D. M. Moir Not purple I grant you but white bells spotted with purple and looking beautiful in my garden this year. […]
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“The foxglove, with it’s stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells.” – D. M. Moir Not purple I grant you but white bells spotted with purple and looking beautiful in my garden this year. […]
“Going to church doesn’t make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.” ~ Laurence J. Peter This is Normanton Church in Rutland. It was built in the late […]
“The very pink of perfection.” ~ Oliver Goldsmith This is a Tamerisk which is growing in my front garden. It is wild and unruly like most of my garden and puts on the most beautiful […]
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ~ Ernest Hemingway In case you are wondering I am not sitting in the front […]
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message […]
“Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.” ~ Jean Ingelow The one thing I dislike about mowing the lawn is loosing all the buttercup and daisy flowers. I love the way […]
“A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.” ~ Ezra Pound
It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. ~Maud Hart Lovelace
“Lost – yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.” ~ Horace […]
“The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.” ~ Ogden Nash At first they ignored me and so I took a few pictures of them eating. Clearly a human […]