Escape to the Countryside

I was passing a lovely little bookshop the other day and what should be in the window at a greatly reduced price? This lovely book!

The book is about the artist Anna Pugh and each page is a treat for the eyes. I'd like to show you every page but I expect Blogger might go onto meltdown if I do, so here are just a few of my favourites. They're all my favourites really so perhaps this could be called a random selection. :)

Such colour and detail, I could spend hours looking at each one. I'd love to own one of her paintings to have on my wall but I'm guessing they're way over my budget so I'll enjoy my lovely new book for now.
It gave me (even more of !) a yearning for green places so a trip to Dyrham Park was in order.

Dyrham Park is only a half hour's drive away from my home and it's a nice place to feel as though you're out in the countryside, like one of Anna Pugh's paintings. :)

 Is that a face I see in the bushes?

 I do declare it is. :)

 The orangery was rather nice too

 and it had one of those etchings on the wall similar to the one I showed you in my previous post.

This is St Peter's church next to the grounds. Please forgive me, I had the need to see it in black and white. ;)

Near the church was this lovely old doorway. I love doorways, especially old ones that to me promise a magical world beyond.

 The cow parsley is pretty at this time of year, the smell is lovely too.

A visit of lovely green escapism!

:)