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Wear this pendant or hand above the door. The love and kisses will never wither or fade over time...
Handcrafted from copper and glass by Ethora.
Witley Court is one of the finest ruined country houses in Britain today. It was built by Thomas Foley in 1655 on the site of a former manor house near Great Witley. Subsequent additions were designed by John Nash in the early 1800s and the Court was subsequently bought by the Dudley family in 1837.
In the September of 1937, whilst the house was owned by a Kidderminster carpet manufacturer Sir Herbert Smith, a fire started in the ballroom. Although causing a lot of damages, some of the house survived.
The following year, the house was divided up into auctioned lots and sold off to demolition contractors and timber merchants.
It remained derelict until the 1970's and is now under the watchful eye of English Heritage.
"The Walks" Park at King's Lynn, Norfolk. people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays-chri...
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Moongazing mistletoe Hares.
Cotton fabric with a transfer of mistletoe not plastic transfer they feel like the fabric.
They stand approx 10 inches in height.
£13.50 including UK P+P
every year i make one new christmas decoration. this is my 2007 contribution, sewn out of an unwanted green shirt and buttons from my stash.
i know it really looks more like holly than mistletoe, but this is how i picture mistletoe, so this is how i made it.
Mistletoe is a parasite that grows on many trees and plants in the desert. It sucks the life out of its hosts and can kill them eventually. In the summer it is green and one hardly notices it. In the winter, however, it flowers and then produces masses of bright orange fruits, about the size of beebees. Birds, especially the black phaenopeplas, eat the sticky fruits and inadvertently spread them to other trees.
Tuve que pedir permiso al dueño de casa para sacar esta foto.
Had to ask permission to the owner of the house to take this shot :-)
In the first century the Druids in Britain believed that mistletoe could perform miracles, from providing fertility to humans and animals to healing diseases and protecting people from witchcraft.
The Druids would cut mistletoe off oak trees in a special ceremony five days after the new moon following the winter solstice. The Druids believed that the mistletoe would become contaminated if it touched the ground, so they used a special white cloth to catch it. The Druids then sacrificed two white bulls while prayers were said, and priests gave out the mistletoe sprigs to the people, who believed they would then be kept safe from evil spirits and storms.
Despite there being more mistletoe than you can shake a stick at I don't remember seeing a Mistletoebird! The wattles were flowering furiously but I think the mistletoes were just budding.
This is along Mosquito Creek Rd near Coolmunda. I know there's a lot of debate about whether mistletoe infestation kills the host tree but there's no doubt in my mind. Probably moreso in the case of isolated trees like this rather than those in a thick forest. Does anyone have any ideas or knowledge on that?
Mistletoe State Park, Clark Hill Lake, Appling, Columbia County, Georgia , Mara Zechnowitz, maraze8@aol.com
The word "mistletoe" is derived from the Anglo-Saxon words, "mistel" (dung) and "tan" (twig) -- misteltan is the Old English version of mistletoe. It's thought that the plant is named after bird droppings on a branch !!!
How to grow your own Mistletoe check out this link! :http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/3345933/Mistletoe-How-to-grow.html
You know sometimes when your doing a shot and it isn't exactly what you want, and your tired and need to get to sleep, and even just looking through the card at the images you got is too much to ask? Well, that was last night. Tonight ... I don't know... maybe?
On top of a hill, a tree stood, withstanding lashing winds, torrential rain, burning sun. All beating down, yet it manages to stay off the ground, fighting to rise again. The mistletoes perched on it's top branches, but only to weigh it down even more.