Thursday, October 04, 2012

Don Donovan's World - The End, Buckland Ripers Manor, Upwey, Dorset


Ramblings of a much published New Zealand author - 03 October 2012

Leaves From My Sketchbooks. 45. The End, Buckland Ripers Manor, Upwey, Dorset

Friends live in this portion of a mid-eighteenth century manor house in Dorset, England. I chose to sketch it through a profusion of garden growth because that's the atmosphere of the place: quiet, dignified and nestled in verdant garden at the end of a wooded country lane.

It was once shielded by elm trees in which rooks nested and cawed incessantly but Dutch elm disease changed things for ever .

© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz

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