Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: National

This chair/bench art installation was a feature in the lobby of the National Trust’s Croome House near Tewkesbury. HBM to everyone. Enjoy the start of the new week.

The formal garden at Hanbury Hall has been rebuilt by the National Trust. At Christmas each small tree has a bauble on top. HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

The unique bedroom window at the National Trust house Stoneywell. This house built in 1899 was designed by Arts & Crafts pioneer Earnest Gimson as a summer house away from the Leicester industry.

HWW to everyone. Have a great day!

Another shot from our visit to Upton House & Gardens, a beautiful National Trust location. Plenty of walls to choose from! HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

A visit to Upton House & Gardens, a beautiful National Trust location. HBM to everyone. Enjoy the start of the new week.

A visit to Upton House & Gardens, a beautiful National Trust location. Formerly the weekend retreat of Lord Bearsted Upton houses a range of world-class paintings, from Stubbs and Hogarth to Bosch and El Greco.

A visit to Upton House & Gardens, a beautiful National Trust location. The garden was designed in the 1930s by Kitty Lloyd-Jones. This display is at the base of the Ha-Ha or sunk fence

A visit to Upton House & Gardens, a beautiful National Trust location. The garden wall (& the house) is built from Lower Jurassic Marlstone Rock Formation a ferrruginous oolitic limestone. HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

In between the showers the sun did shine and I managed to get this shot of Belton House. Belton is a Grade I listed country house built between 1685 and 1687 by Sir John Brownlow & cared for today by the National Trust. HBM to everyone. Enjoy the start to the new week.

We drove from Johannesburg to Kruger Park for a short break spending just one night at Pretoriuskop in the park. With no particular plan we just drove around for the day and were surprised how many animals were about although we didn't see any big cats. This pod of hippos were lazing about in the river. In fact they are among the most dangerous animals in the world due to their aggressive and unpredictable nature.

The Window & the Chisos Mountains looking west from the lodge in the Chisos Basin at the centre of Big Bend National Park out towards the Chihuahua desert. The Chisos Mountains are mainly of igneous origin and were erupted and deposited during the Cenozoic. The oldest rocks in the mountains are volcanic ash, mixtures of ash and clay, sandstone, and conglomerates.

Is this Brown-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia triloba or is it Common Sneezeweed? - the leaves and petals from which were used to make snuff.

It may be the walled garden at National Trust's Calke Abbey but the bullrushes and other water plants are kept off the lawn by a fence! HFF to everyone. Enjoy the weekend.

The wooden staircase at Calke Abbey. The property and surrounding gardens & grounds are cared for by National Trust. HFF everyone and have a great weekend.

Another visit to The National Trust's only house in Leicestershire! Stoneywell was built by Earnest Gimson for his brother, a Leicester industrialist, as a summer holiday home in the late 1890s. It was built in the Arts & Crafts tradition and style with much of the original furniture hand-made by Barnsley. In keeping with the back-to-nature style it was built over an outcrop of volcanic rock but of course this means the house is damp.

Red-hot Pokers (Kniphofia) in the garden at Dudmaston Hall National Trust near Shrewsbury. I'm not sure of the history but those windows have come and gone. HWW to everyone!

A ride out west to Shropshire where we hoped to see a bit more sun took us to the National Trust at Dudmaston Hall. No sun I'm afraid but a beautiful house and gardens.