Remembered

We visited Greys Court at the weekend,a Tudow Country house near Henley.

I would show you some pictures of the interior, but all photography is forbidden, and this always gets my back up. In this case the family retained some rights to the property when it passed into the hands of the NT, and as a result they don't want the general public snapping their domestic stuff. Fair enough I reluctantly suppose.

So, here are a couple of views from the grounds:

A memorial to a faithful gardener carved into a tree trunk complete with curved poem by W. De La Mer on the back.



And a solitary sunflower keeps an eye on the roses and the medieval tower.



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