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Had the pleasure of visiting The O'Connor House English Tea Room in Deseranto, Ontario and this beautiful scene was on our table. Such a lovely way to spend a few hours on a weekend afternoon.
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El conjunt d'edificacions conegut com a Torre Marimón acull el IRTA (Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentaries).
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The rural complex known as Torre Marimon, now hosting the IRTA, a public company dedicated to the agricultural and food research.
Another slide restoration from Summer 1976. I'd think late Summer or the grass would be all brown.
In my mind's eye, most of the gardens I remember in the 70s were much this design. Reality struck when I had my own first garden, which I doubt went little further than the shed. Gardens are generally getting smaller today, with developers trying to pack as many houses as they can into a new housing scheme.
Caroline and I had breakfast on the cliffs over looking the sea.
The sea mist rolled around over Northern France. Its a view we have witnessed many times.
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Don't like how the HDR has done weird things to the sky but without it it doesn't have such impact.
Hurley, Berkshire. The parish church was originally part of the benedictine priory founded in 1086, dissolved in 1536
There was a time when we thought that the Anglican Church was as unchangeable and as permanent as the English weather, that the red telephone cubicle was part of an identifiable English character, and that the equally red letter box would be eternal.
"Oh, oh, you think you're special
Oh, oh, you think you're something else"
The Anglican Church is no longer what it used to be - and its majority is no longer "English". English weather is now a matter of unpredictable surprises, telephone cubicles have been superseded by smart phones, and the Royal Mail is neither royal nor reliable in its delivery of letters. And the English character? You tell me. We in the UK are living among fossilised objects, and if new life is springing up it will in all likelihood have little to do with the Anglican Church, the Royal Mail and Englishness. Let me put it bluntly, it is immigration that is blowing new life into a sclerotised and inelastic body. Leica M8, Voigtlaender 35/1.4.
The best way to manage the heath at Kinver Edge sensitively is to graze it with cattle. The National Trust use a herd of English Longhorn cows, an ancient breed, who crush the bracken, chomp on bramble and nibble leaves and grass. Their trampling creates bare sandy areas that bees nest in and releases heather seeds. By roaming around they naturally create a ‘mosaic’ of different habitats across the landscape, which is ideal for wildlife.
A painted shot of English Bay on a sunny bright day last week.
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Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
‘Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpeck’d cherries,
Melons and raspberries,
Bloom-down-cheek’d peaches,
Swart-headed mulberries,
Wild free-born cranberries,
Crab-apples, dewberries,
Pine-apples, blackberries,
Apricots, strawberries;—
All ripe together
In summer weather,—
Morns that pass by,
Fair eves that fly;
Come buy, come buy …’
Christina Rossetti, ‘Goblin Market’
Taken at Goatwood stunning 1800s sim
DenDen - "Freedom" pose