Tag: Saturday Snapshot
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Saturday Snapshot: King John’s Tomb
This week’s Saturday Snapshot photos were taken during a recent visit to Worcester Cathedral, and show the tomb of King John – think Robin Hood (only that turns out to be just a story), Magna Carta, and Crown Jewels lost in the Wash. These days there’s a tendency for historians to take a revisionist view…
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Hidden Garden Haunted by a Ghostly Monk!
Monks Walk: The carved wooden sign at the entrance. Been on holiday, and scheduled posts to appear while I was away (including this one), but nothing happened! Plus all my portrait photos, which are saved as such, are appearing here as landscape… the same thing has been happening on Facebook for weeks. I have no…
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A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies!
A Peacock butterfly perched on a white buddleia – isn’t he glorious? I’ve neglected my garden shamefully, and it’s terribly overgrown and out of hand, so I’ve been out there this week trying to hack back the jungle. And on Wednesday my efforts were reward by the most beautiful and amazing sight – butterflies! Hundreds…
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Snapshots of Paris…
I’ve been looking through my old holiday photos and, since I’m on a ‘virtual’ trip for the Paris in July challenge, run by Karen at Book Bath and Tamara at Thyme for Tea, and Dreaming of France over at An Accidental Blog, I thought would post some of my pictures for a Saturday Snapshot, which is…
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Fountains and Sculptures
Birmingham Town Hall, overlooking The River in VictoriaSquare, which is lovely spot to sit on a sunny day. These are not the best photos I’ve ever taken – either the sun was in the wrong place for good shots or, more likely I suspect, I was in the wrong place. As the Duchess told Alice,…
The Book Trunk 