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Me and my shadow on a quiet Transpennine Trail this morning.

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Lovely shades of grey Ellianne

More Snowdrops NannyJan53, Blossoming.

Snap! Lisagran!!

Meet Cone-an (The Snow-man) or Twiggy, (if you can see his arms you'll understand why).

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Lovely Namsnanny

A walk to our local park yesterday. The geese are walking on water

Jan honestly, this is only the second time that I've looked at this thread, and once again, the first pictures I see are yours!
Mary Stevens' Park - I had many a mispent afternoon there as a teenager, larking about with mates and a bottle of wine from the offie!
I'd give myself a dirty look and a tut now!

Welcome colour on a grey day!

My snowbooted footprints ?

A grey day in the park, but the view is always good.

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Taken this morning - one is the home of Rossetti, where his muse Fanny Cornforth (the original!) must have spent some time and the other is George Eliot's home. They are a few doors away from each other.

The photo taken from the front with the big gates is Rossetti's.

Artists and writers of their era certainly lived well!

Riverwalk thanks for those - I’m particularly interested in the Rossetti one. Was it the Rossetti family home?
I think when he lived with Lizzie Siddal they had some sort of apartment - I remember reading in a biography of her, that most apartments had no cooking facilities and that was why they ate out all the time.

First steps in crochet

Jane from my poor photography you can't see the blue plaque but just checking online he seems to have lived there for 50 years! The house is just too grand to ever have been a ' boarding house'.

All the houses seem to have basements where staff would have cooked. Whether the 'great and the good' ever needed a kitchen, who knows!

Checking further I think he lived in the house for 25 years - whatever, it's a fabulous house!

Fanny it is indeed Mary Stevens Park, I am surprised you recognised it from those photos!

Lemon tree this morning.

Sorry I am yet to learn how to add photos but if I could I would be adding some of the first crocus' that I saw in my local park this morning. What a happy sight

Riverwalk thank you for those photos. Rossetti's house is fabulous.
You are so fortunate to live so near to such places.
Jan Mary Stevens' was instantly recognisable! Both the bandstand and the pond.

Wild crocuses in our local park

Glorious lemon tree dustyangel. I bet the smell is heavenly!
This photo is from Seville a while ago.

Cs783

First steps in crochet

Excellent for first steps, Cws783!!

Callistemon

Cs783

First steps in crochet

Excellent for first steps, Cws783!!

Yes much better than I could manage Cs783

Went to Seville a couple of years ago, Namsnanny - glorious smell of orange and lemon trees everywhere!

Hellebores coming out now.....

Aww thanks for the kind words re crochet, Callistemon and Namsnanny.

I’m really enjoying all the pix. Lovely to linger over such joys.

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Memories of Dartmoor last summer.

Beautiful moorish architecture as well, isnt there lisagran?
I see your jugs are still doing a Stirling job - holding the necks of the Hellibours straight, so we can look into their faces I mean!!