Bowood House, Wiltshire

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Bowood House, fountain, Historic Houses Association, lion statues, topiary, Wiltshire

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart.  All Rights Reserved.

Robert the Bruce

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facial reconstruction, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, leprosy, Robert the Bruce, skull cast

a reconstruction from the 1990s from a plaster cast of his skull.

A disease like leprosy ravaged the 53 year old’s features.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum

Photo by Candia

Genealogy in Stone

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ancestors, Cotswold churches, daughters, descendants, genealogy, Miserden, Sculpture, tomb ornament, weepers

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart.  All Rights Reserved.

Barbezieux

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Barbezieux, black and white photography, castle, Charente

Charente.  France has never seemed more appealing.

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart.  All Rights Reserved.

Wimbledon Champions

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2019, Djokovic, Serena Williams, Wimbledon

This was 2015, but one champion did it again!

 

Bradford-on-Avon

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Bradford on Avon, canal, Wiltshire, woollen mills River Avon

…as you have never seen it!

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart.  All Rights Reserved

Talmont sur Gironde

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Charente Maritime, France, Gironde, pilgrims, St Hilaire, Talmont

                        St Hilaire.  Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Montaigne’s Tower

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Essays, folk wisdom, Montaigne, Montaigne's Tower, Philosophy

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart  All Rights Reserved

He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears: Michel de

Montaigne

or, as my granny used to admonish:  If ye fear a fear, it’ll come

upon you.

I doubt she had read Montaigne, but folk wisdom is

watered-down philosophy and not always diluted!

Kelmscott Re-Visited

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Arts & Crafts, Cotswolds, Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, poppies, William Morris

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart  All Rights Reserved

Male Torsos

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acrylics, Classical sculpture, male torso

Acrylics- painted 2 hours ago by Candia Dixon-Stuart