Idyllic. Gouverneurshuisje, Good Health and Lady's Smock, Cardamine pratensis, Zypendaal-Sonsbeek, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Training south I alighted at Arnhem to walk in pleasant Sonsbeek Park. Ambling at my leisure to the north-northwest I came to a dam separating two reflecting ponds. There stands a pretty statue of Asclepius (the medical arts), Hygeia (personification of health) and Telesphorus (recovery from illness). It dates from the late eighteenth century and its maker is unknown. It once graced the lawns of Rhederoord Manor not far away but was moved to the grounds of Zypendaal Manor - owned by the same family - in the 1960s.
The pretty little house across the water behind our Sculpture is called the Gouverneurshuisje. It was built to house the tutor of the manor's children and served both as a playhouse for them and as a classroom. It dates from the middle of the nineteenth century.
The lawns here today were full of pretty mauve Lady's Smock, Cardamine pratensis. I don't think it's used much these days as a medicine, but well into the twentieth century it served to cure winter's illnesses because of its abundance with Vitamin C.
So here's a picture of the very heart of health of body and soul!
And yes! it was Spring!
Idyllic. Gouverneurshuisje, Good Health and Lady's Smock, Cardamine pratensis, Zypendaal-Sonsbeek, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Training south I alighted at Arnhem to walk in pleasant Sonsbeek Park. Ambling at my leisure to the north-northwest I came to a dam separating two reflecting ponds. There stands a pretty statue of Asclepius (the medical arts), Hygeia (personification of health) and Telesphorus (recovery from illness). It dates from the late eighteenth century and its maker is unknown. It once graced the lawns of Rhederoord Manor not far away but was moved to the grounds of Zypendaal Manor - owned by the same family - in the 1960s.
The pretty little house across the water behind our Sculpture is called the Gouverneurshuisje. It was built to house the tutor of the manor's children and served both as a playhouse for them and as a classroom. It dates from the middle of the nineteenth century.
The lawns here today were full of pretty mauve Lady's Smock, Cardamine pratensis. I don't think it's used much these days as a medicine, but well into the twentieth century it served to cure winter's illnesses because of its abundance with Vitamin C.
So here's a picture of the very heart of health of body and soul!
And yes! it was Spring!