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44 - Wiltshire - Driving England

20 Jun 2022 4 8 24
Being driven through the hedges.

Easter day - dogwood flower 20250420 150431

20 Apr 2025 15 20 47
I hope everyone had a great day yesterday.

43 - OUTSIDE AVEBURY - Driving England

20 Jun 2022 22 26 100
Heading towards West Kennett, out of Avebury. (No, I wasn't driving! But this is out a car window as we were leaving Avebury area.)

42 AVEBURY - Stone Circle

20 Jun 2022 22 37 118
No, not on a mountain, standing at the base of one the stone in the Avebury Stone Circle shown below. It's huge!! Maybe one of "Tolkien's Talking Trees" or maybe the Avebury wishing tree. It certainly did have lots of roots showing. (Yes, I know I'm not showing those here.)

41 WILTSHIRE - Cherhill white horse

20 Jun 2022 37 55 241
Had to stop to see this while driving through. View large to find the horse. And I think that's Oldbury Castle Hillfort in the middle distance.

birthday flowers

05 Feb 2025 31 38 225
My crazy version of the beautiful flowers my husband gave me for my birthday.

William Henry Fox Talbot - Latticed window at Laco…

16 Jan 2025 7 2 106
This image is in the public domain. This is the sub-photo for this one of mine: www.ipernity.com/doc/raingirl/52755612

40 COTSWOLDS - doorstop fosse farm house

20 Jun 2022 12 10 121
Of course she would have a cute doorstop - all was delightful at the B&B

39 COTSWOLDS - at fosse farmhouse

20 Jun 2022 12 6 93
Just part of a bouquet in our room at the Fosse Farmhouse B&B.

38 BATH - pulteney bridge from inside

19 Jun 2022 9 7 105
I think the owl has the best view.

37 BATH - pulteney bridge

19 Jun 2022 5 4 66
Owl posted at a cafe window on the bridge to keep away friendly pigeons, I presume.

36.5 - Sacricity room lacock abbey info

19 Jun 2022 2 49
This room probably dates from the 1230s, making it one of the oldest parts of the abbey to survive. Some of the plaster on the walls and ceiling is original and nearly 800 years old. There is evidence of painted decoration in several places around the room. Some of it is medieval, but some is probablay from the 1700s. A later resident, John Ivory Talbot wrote in 1754: 'My painter [Lord William Seymour] is so nice and busy in ornamenting my Cloisters' After John Ivory Talbot inherited Lacock in 1714, he set about altering the house to suit him. He built the Great Hall you see today at the front of the building and removed the outer walls of the rooms on this side of the cloiser, creating a romantic 'ruin' that could be enjoyed as part of the garden. The outer walls of these rooms were sympathetically rebuilt in about 1894 when Charles Talbot lived here. If they had remained open to the weather it is unlikely that so much of this plaster would be here today. -From the sign in front of the room at Lacock Abbey Yes, they are talking about the Talbot family of photographic fame. William Henry Fox Talbot took this photo at the Abbey in 1835: William Henry Fox Talbot - Latticed window at lacock abbey 1835 (public domain)

36 LACOCK ABBEY - oldest room

19 Jun 2022 10 8 76
See Pip for room info. William Henry Fox Talbot - Latticed window at lacock abbey 1835 (public domain)

34 - LACOCK - camera obscura

19 Jun 2022 3 46
Lacock Abbey. Upside down is the right side up with camera obscuras.

33 CASTLE COMBE - survivors

19 Jun 2022 12 6 105
plants vs structures. I think the plants are winning.

31 CASTLE COMBE - church

30 CASTLE COMBE - bells

19 Jun 2022 2 2 47
The church bells sing.

29 CASTLE COMBE - church

19 Jun 2022 5 4 45
In a valley.

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