Tuesday, September 8, 2009

More Horse Chestnuts....

It is surprising what one can miss when one is distracted. For the last few weeks I have regularly being visiting St Martin's Hospital in Bath, travelling there by bus. By the hospital bus stop there is a churchyard and I had registered the fact that there was a row of Horse Chestnut trees running alongside the boundary wall. What I had NOT registered- being preoccupied either about getting to the hospital or about when the next bus was arriving- was that these trees had the most fantastic barks that were like wonderful works of art. So here are some of them: