Day 122 – Snake’s head fritillary
“There is a kind of cult around Fritillaria meleagris—the snake’s head fritillary—to do with its looks and its name and the fact that the kind of garden in which it thrives is not necessarily the […]
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“There is a kind of cult around Fritillaria meleagris—the snake’s head fritillary—to do with its looks and its name and the fact that the kind of garden in which it thrives is not necessarily the […]
“Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
“I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.” ~ William Butler […]
“I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.” ~ William Butler […]
“We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.” ~ Jodi Picoult This is Port Meadow in Oxford. A beautiful haven that lays to […]
“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” ~ David Mamet This quote made me chuckle. I have no idea how a pie eases stress but maybe it is […]
“To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.” ~ Charles Baudelaire *Taken at St Giles Church in the lost village of Hampton Gay, Oxfordshire
“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.” ~St. Jerome [columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns]
“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” ~ Anatole France [columns] [span4] [/span4][span4] [/span4][span4] [/span4][/columns]