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I was very lucky with the weather. I visited four National Trust properties today. Some smaller details to follow ...
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him, and
he will make your paths straight.
Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the
Lord and shun evil. This will bring health
to your body and nourishment to your bones.
Proverbs 3:5-8
Mark Viso, President and Chief Executive Officer, Pact, USA, in Trust or Bust? at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 20, 2015. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
Please view on black, so much better.
I loved the expression of this wonderful horse in this, he is so into what he is doing.
Its a bit of a snapshot this one from Howden Show a couple of weeks ago. The horse & girl entertained us with some dancing & acrobatics.
The trust they had in each other was amazing
On the edge of the National Trust's Malham Tarn Estate, Janet's Foss is of particular conservation importance.
Foss is the old Scandinavian word for a waterfall or force. According to legend, Janet (or Jennet) queen of the local fairies, lives in a cave behind the waterfall. The cave was formed by limestone bedrock being dissolved and eroded by the action of water and then re-deposited on mosses growing at the lip of the fall. This has caused the remarkable but fragile tufa screen, which reaches to the plunge pool below.
Many years ago, the pool below the waterfall was used as a sheepwash. Sheep were driven into the water and washed before shearing in late June.
National Trust Property, Lyveden New Bield. Built by Sir Thomas Tresham between 1595 and 1605. He was a strict Catholic during the reign of Elizabeth I and his Lodge was covered in religious symbolism. He spent periods of his life in prison and under house arrest because he would not renounce his faith. In 1605 his son Francis was inplicated in the Gunpowder Plot and died a traitor in the Tower of London, because of this the lodge was never finished.
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
Taken on Day of Life #31
I have so many photos that I am just dumping into the New Rescue Family set, but I'll pull a few last photos for the front of the stream this morning.
[SOOC, f/1.6, ISO 1000, shutter speed 1/400, -1/3 EV]
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
Attenborough Nature Reserve, in Attenborough, Nottinghamshire.
Attenborough Nature Reserve is managed by Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust in partnership with the site's owners, Cemex (formerly RMC Group), supported by Broxtowe Borough Council. At its centre is a building called Attenborough Nature Centre, comprising visitor services and educational facilities.
The site was used as gravel pits between 1929 and 1967, and is still owned by CEMEX, the gravel extraction company, who continue to extract sand and gravel from neighbouring areas. Working gravel barges still pass through the site. As sections of the site are worked out they are restored as wetland. In 2010 an area known as Thrumpton's Land was restored in this way. The reserve was established at the completion of an earlier phase of workings, in 1966 and was opened by the naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough.
The reserve now covers 145 hectares of lakes, wetland, grassland and scrub. It sits at the confluence of the River Erewash and the Trent, and is part of an area designated as the Attenborough Gravel Pits Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The SSSI covers 226.6 hectares (560 acres) and extends westwards beyond the reserve, to the County
There are large lakes formed by the flooded pits, known as Church Pond, Clifton Pond, Main Pond, Tween Pond and Beeston Pond, plus drier areas of scrub and grassland such as Corbetts Meadow and Erewash field. There are also areas of native willow and woodland.
The ponds have become the most important bird overwintering area in Nottinghamshire for shoveler and diving ducks. The species count since 1966 is now over 250 bird species. Among the nationally rare birds seen at the reserve are penduline tit (1994), squacco heron (1998 and 2011), purple heron (2003) and sora (2004).
The Attenborough Nature Centre at the site provides an educational facility, shop and refreshment point and car park for the reserve, accessed from Barton Lane, Attenborough. The Centre was completed in 2005, since which it has won a Gold award for eco-tourism. Almost 40 years after he opened the reserve itself, David Attenborough returned to open the centre. An article in BBC Wildlife Magazine listed it as number 9 in a top ten 'eco places in the world'. The facilities are open seven days a week, and the centre is surrounded by the ponds. There are also two public hides.
down a deserted alleyway
the huge ass rat I saw crossing another alley almost deterred me . . . almost
-Death and All of His Friends.
Lord teach me to be patient.
Teach me to wait.
Teach me to endure.
Teach me to fight.
Teach me peace.
Teach me honor.
Teach me wisdom.
Teach me to see.
Teach me to listen.
Teach me to be fearless.
Teach me to face it.
Teach me to trust.
Teach me your will.
Time is too precious to waste it all away.
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I'm a doctor .. Mmmm well , what sort of a doctor , a Witchdoctor or which doctor . Their Not God .. they do have their uses and many are great medical doctors no doubt but add money to the equation and theres a volatile mixture .. so be Careful .
You might be going somewhere you shouldn't . The Body itself is the best healer , all it needs is a fair go . Nature or natural is the best .
Put good in and get good out !
Brisbane
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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.
wikipedia
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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