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Knightshayes Court
A perfect tree
On an afternoon stroll with a friend round the grounds of Knightshayes Court in Devon, we saw this perfect tree in full spring leaf… that is its actual colour, I haven’t changed it at all!
MoreJuxtaposition
Sometimes you see two unexpected colours against each other and they just seem to work… I’m not an artist and so I don’t know anything about the theory of colour, and maybe the colours I saw adjacent to each other in the walled garden at Knightshayes Court are a classic match… I saw these clumps […]
MoreSunny Knightshayes
Knightshayes Court near Tiverton in North Devon is a stately home under the ownership of the National Trust. There is a wonderful and very interesting house, a shop full of delights, a tearoom, and beautiful gardens. We spent our afternoon having a picnic in the parkland, and then wandered round the walled garden.
MoreFriendly geese
Geese have a reputation for being fierce and aggressive, in fact they have been used as watch ‘dogs’ because they can be so fierce and vicious! This friendly foursome came rushing across their paddock to the fence to chat to us, and they had a fine old cackle. The brown ones had gorgeous blue eyes, […]
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Lois Elsden 