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This is a very long zoom, but thought you all would enjoy this ;-)
Green Anole on turtle foot
Huie wetlands
Winner, Pre-game, Feet, hooves, claws, paws, 4-14
I drive by this little church frequently in the valley that I live in and am reminded of my faith in Jesus by these crosses.
Flower, bee, Hughenden, pink garden, spring, springtime, macro, close up, nature, Nikon, D750, R1C1, 105mm, Flash photography, outside, National Trust
Info from National Trust website, a very interesting site.
Construction, heyday and decline
Evidence for the first stone structure at Chedworth Roman Villa dates to the 2nd century AD. This relatively simple structure consisted of three detached buildings, each of a few rooms.
Over the next two centuries the villa was extended and improved, reaching its heyday in the 4th century AD, between 360-380AD. During this time Chedworth Roman Villa was a place of wealth, luxury and comfort. Imagine stunning mosaic floors, extensive bath house rooms and features made of marble so precious it was usually reserved for the imperial family.
Soon after this period of wealth and decadence the villa was abandoned. The Roman Empire officially pulled out of Britain in 410AD. It's around this time that Chedworth Roman Villa fell into disrepair. The roofs fell in, trees grew up through the mosaic floors and soil from the surrounding banks buried the buildings.
Victorian discovery:
It was not until a chance discovery by a gamekeeper in 1864 that Chedworth Roman Villa was unearthed.
One summer in 1864 was all it took for James Farrer, an archaeologst and uncle to the third Lord Eldon, to uncover Chedworth Roman Villa. Having gathered a team of estate workers, James felled the wood and revealed the walls and mosaic floors of one of Britain's largest remaining Roman villas.
After the 1864 excavations, some mosaics were left for visitors to view but the rest were re-buried. The outline of the Villa was reconstructed by placing nearby stone on top of surviving walls. At the same time, a lodge and museum were built on James' excavation spoil heap.
National Trust ownership:
A local archaeologist Welbore St Clair Baddeley raised enough money by public subscription to buy Chedworth Roman Villa and pass it to the National Trust in 1924. Ever since then the Trust has worked hard to understand more about the villa and protect it for the future.
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...so..this is the little lady who showed up last winter as a little tiny kitten in the midst of a 5 degree F cold snap.
Before long she was inside looking out!
At 6'5" I tower over this tiny creature. I am pretty sure my FEET weigh more than she does.....I am ever so careful not to step on her......and yet when I reach out for her, she does THIS....no flinching, no running under the sofa; far from it :)
Not sure how I earned her trust but I am happy it is there....cats are good for people!
I like to thank you all my flickr friends around the world whom some I'm yet to meet... for the inspiration and the lasting impact that you have made in my journey...
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I don’t believe in angels,
But I trust them.
I don’t believe in destiny,
But it follows me everywhere I go,
I don’t believe in heaven,
But respect the rain, when it pours!
I don’t believe in tears,
But I trust the comfort they bring me.
I don’t believe in fear,
yet trust a winding road
For it may some how
Lead me to a crimson wave.
I don’t believe in a pitiful gaze
that bring me down
But I trust a reaching hand
to help me stand up.
For I “believe” that “trust”,
will someday save me…!
Cyrus H. Mafi Copyright 2010
Nymans is an English garden in Haywards Heath, Sussex. It was developed, starting in the late 19th century, by three generations of the Messel family, and was brought to renown by Leonard Messel.
In 1953 Nymans became a National Trust property.[1] Nymans is the origin of many sports, selections and hybrids, both planned and serendipitous, some of which can be identified by the term nymansensis, "of Nymans". Eucryphia × nymansensis (E. cordifolia × E. glutinosa) is also known as E. "Nymansay". Magnolia × loebneri 'Leonard Messel', Camellia 'Maud Messel' and Forsythia suspensa 'Nymans', with its bronze young stems, are all familiar shrub to gardeners.
History
In the late 19th century, Ludwig Messel, a member of a German Jewish family, settled in England and bought the Nymans estate, a house with 600 acres on a sloping site overlooking the picturesque High Weald of Sussex. There he set about turning the estate into a place for family life and entertainment, with an Arts and Crafts-inspired garden room where topiary features contrast with new plants from temperate zones around the world. Messel's head gardener from 1895 was James Comber, whose expertise helped form plant collections at Nymans of camellias, rhododendrons, which unusually at the time were combined with planting heather (Erica) eucryphias and magnolias. William Robinson advised in establishing the Wild Garden.[2]
His son Colonel Leonard Messel succeeded to the property in 1915 and replaced the nondescript Regency house with the picturesque stone manor, designed by Sir Walter Tapper and Norman Evill in a mellow late Gothic/Tudor style. He and his wife Maud (daughter of Edward Linley Sambourne) extended the garden to the north and subscribed to seed collecting expeditions in the Himalayas and South America.
The garden reached a peak in the 1930s and was regularly opened to the public. The severe reduction of staff in World War II was followed in 1947 by a disastrous fire in the house, which survives as a garden ruin. The house was partially rebuilt and became the home of Leonard Messel's daughter[3] Anne Messel and her second husband the 6th Earl of Rosse. At Leonard Messel's death in 1953 it was willed to the National Trust with 275 acres of woodland, one of the first gardens taken on by the Trust. Lady Rosse continued to serve as Garden Director.
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Looking to the side of the main house that looks out to the South . Behind where I am standing the ground drops away into a valley and is quite a suntrap ( when it shines of course !! ) .
‘This is a delicious house…’ remarked Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, on her honeymoon at Polesden Lacey. This country retreat, with glorious views across the Surrey Hills, was home to formidable Edwardian hostess Mrs Greville. Marvel at the glittering Saloon, designed to impress kings and maharajahs, or admire her extensive art and porcelain collections.
There has been a house at Polesden Lacey since at least the C12 but the first house whose appearance is known was built for the Rous family and completed by 1631. The estate was purchased by Arthur Moore, an economist and politician, in 1723 and his son, William, extended the house between 1735 and 1748. The Moores probably began the construction of the Long Walk or Terrace, which overlooks the park. The Sheridan family purchased the estate in 1797 and the house was in ruins by c 1814, when Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the playwright and politician, pulled most of it down with the intention of rebuilding it. However it was left to Joseph Bonsor, a stationer and bookseller, who purchased the estate in 1818, to rebuild the house to the designs of Thomas Cubitt. Bonsor was also responsible for planting thousands of trees, and renovating the garden, park, and estate. Sir Walter Farquhar purchased the estate in 1853 from the Bonsor family, and he enlarged the house between 1853 and 1870, preserving most of Cubitt's structure. Farquhar's house was in turn rebuilt in 1903-5 by Ambrose Poynter for Sir Clinton Dawkins, a civil servant and financier, who owned Polesden Lacey between 1902 and his death in 1906. Mrs Greville and her husband, Captain the Hon Ronald Greville, bought Polesden in 1906 and commissioned Mewes and Davis to alter the house. Ronald Greville died in 1909 but Mrs Greville continued to own Polesden Lacey until 1942, during which time she entertained Edward VII and other members of the royal family there. The Polesden Lacey Estate was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1942, and the house and garden were rearranged for public opening. The National Trust continue (2000) to own and manage the estate.
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Essentially, an organization’s behavior in a number of different areas acts as a “trust filter” - positive actions let trust flow through while negative actions block trust.