Autumn is upon us, supposedly the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, but this year Autumn has been the season of heatwaves, frosts, some trees turning gold, others deciding it's spring and bursting into flower again.
Tis the season of schizophrenic Mother Nature.
In a little while, the trees will sort themselves out and get nekkid …
… and then this sort of thing is going to happen
Bleah.
Followed by this.
Spring at Norwich Castle is breathtaking.
The big ol' square box has sat up there on its mound since 1068 (and there was a wooden one up there before that).
It has never been taken, hence its non-ruinous state; mostly because Norfolk is where just about every revolt, revolution and rebellion of the last thousand years has started. We go and knock down other people's castles but ours stays intact. Yay us!
It has never been taken, hence its non-ruinous state; mostly because Norfolk is where just about every revolt, revolution and rebellion of the last thousand years has started. We go and knock down other people's castles but ours stays intact. Yay us!
So far it has witnessed around 3,772 seasons, and hopefully it will see a few more yet.
Summer sees it splendidly scruffy; adrift in a sea of wildflowers. I love it like that; the idiots who campaign to have the grass cut short need a good slap upside the head.
The first photo and this one were taken this week.
The last of the season's wildflowers have gone to sleep after seeding the mound ready for next year.
And you'll remember this one from last week.
It's pretty hard to take a bad photo of Castle Blancheflower, so it makes for an easy post on a busy weekend.
And from my new office I have a great view of it, sitting serenely above the trees on the opposite side of the valley. I can watch it through the seasons by just looking up from my monitor; great for a lazy so-and-so like myself.
And from my new office I have a great view of it, sitting serenely above the trees on the opposite side of the valley. I can watch it through the seasons by just looking up from my monitor; great for a lazy so-and-so like myself.
Enjoy your weekends, people.
10 comments:
Would Blancheflower be schizophrenic or bi-polar? She doesn't seem to have any aluminum foil helmets at any time does she?
I especially like the textures on the bricks and stones in the retaining wall.
What a lovely place to have an office, where you can look out on the tops of trees and beautiful buildings.
Great photos of our Castle...
In that second photo....was that SNOW? Because that looked like what we prairie people call "a little dusting" and we get that almost daily in the Winters here. That is not snow. It has to be at least a half a foot to be snow, Dive.....
Just saying....
And my word verification is "puttle." I like it and shall use it. As in, "I feel like I want to just puttle around today."
I love the wildflowers. That castle appears to be very sturdy. May it stand another thousand years or so.
Speedway, it's a real pleasure to look up from my work and see the Castle and the Cathedral and a huge expanse of sky doing all sorts of crazy, weathery stuff. In London I had that for a while but for years we got stuck down on the ground floor which - in a city - is not the best place for views of anything other than traffic jams.
Mum, you can't take a bad photo of the place.
Hee hee, Maria. We do have snow from time to time but then I get snowed in to the village and so I can't go out taking photos of the Castle. I'm enjoying puttling around today and am really pleased that my upcoming winter is going to be a lot more mild than it will be for you in Cornhusker Country.
Neetzy, the Castle and the Cathedral will easily outlast any of the modern buildings we are putting up these days.
Enjoy our weekend, too, Dive.
I think I prefer the scruffy landscape to close-cut grass, too. It looks more welcoming and like summer.
It's much prettier. Neat grass is so "suburbs" - give me a wildflower meadow any day.
Lucky you with such a great office view!
Fun to see the castle in all seasons.
Hope your weekend has been good, too.
It has a modern look for a castle, don't you think? Maybe it's because it's unscarred.
Ms.M, it was nice and restful, but now I'm off to work and it's about three degrees here. It's either a heatwave or freezing; so much for our alleged "temperate" climate.
Petrea, it was modern in 1068. A couple of hundred years later it looked decidedly dated when the fashion came in for long enclosing walls and turrets with a central house, but perhaps fashion has swung around again.
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