If I was a tree 🌳, I'd like to be like this tree 🌳... Alas! An impressively tall, straight, handsome tree 🌳 for this week's #ThickTrunkTuesday

Aug 20: Feast of Oswine (†651), king of Deira. Devoted friend of Aidan, apostle of Northumbria. Executed at Ingetlingum (Gilling West, Yorkshire) by rival Oswiu, king of Bernicia. Bede describes Oswine as ‘generous to high and low alike’. St Oswin’s Church, Wylam 📸Rfwebster

The best things in life are tree #thebestthingsinlifearetree

A rose 🌹 of the most exquisite red, petals fully open to not hinder the bees 🐝🐝. Perfect 😊 From the gardens of East Riddlesden Hall for #RoseWednesday

Hello and happy Friday. I’d like to invite you to give my little amateur endeavour a listen. It’s unscripted & doesn’t have any adverts, and it’s free. By the end of the episode you’ll have learnt a few things and hopefully completely relaxed. Go on🤗 buzzsprout.com/2412300/episod…

King George is at Castle Howard #postboxsaturday

A visit last Friday to Castle Howard This is the temple of the Four Winds with its beautifully decorated inner dome.

Just visible from the aforementioned Temple of the Four Winds Castle Howard is the mausoleum and the bridge leading to it.

Final series of photos from an, at times, grey, dark day Castle Howard. But, there's no denying, it's an impressive place.

Did the doorway come first, or were the pages of the blueprint out of order 🤔 York Minster

Car Park Oak #thicktrunktuesday

For anyone interested in #Tudor England this very accessible edition of Law Pod UK provides the interested amateur insights into legal considerations of life and death in the period. ⁦Law Pod UK⁩ Enjoyable on every level. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/law…

Dog Tooth moulding and other nice features for #AdoorableThursday. Holy Trinity Church, Micklegate, York. Open daily, 10am-3pm.

On this day in 1104 the incorrupt body of St. Cuthbert was translated to Durham Cathedral. Or, perhaps, to the fabulous Minster Gate #Bookshop in York. Seriously, though, one could spend a whole, joyous😊day perusing the treasures within said establishment.

Time for the 2025 #Dahlia of the year post. I give it to the ever magnificent Bishop of Llandaff growing in our garden. #FlowersonFriday.

Mellow Fruitfulness abounds at Askham Bog. It's going to be a good acorn year; popping out of their cups, raining down on the woodland floor. Butterflies, beetles 🪲, buzzards- and, still, a few flowers. Dexter Cattle munching. #YorkshireWildlifeTrust

An earnest please to earlier generations of drivers.

'... Henry Robinson...he hath left behind him a rare example of children's obedience unto there (sic) parents unto succedinge generations.' I love everything about this #memorial, especially the way its maker has though out the space saving devices. All Saints, Ryther.