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24/3/2019

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I am so touched and encouraged by your kind comments yesterday I think I'll take aim for ten years!

These Golden Gates are at Benmore Botanic Gardens where we managed a short walk today between heavy showers and cold gusts of wind. They were exhibited at the Paris exhibition of 1878. It must have been a magical experience to drive through the forest and the wild landscape in a horse and carriage and arrive via this entrance to Benmore House.
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Julia
24/3/2019 04:50:14 pm

Just my 2 cents..but methinks you have already earned the GOLD!...but pelase do not stop writing to us..:-)

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eda
25/3/2019 02:39:41 pm

Thanks Julia - will keep on keeping on!

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Sheena
25/3/2019 12:29:13 am

The golden gates in the wild wood! They do have a fairy tale feeling though I suppose the giant trees around them wouldn't have been quite so giant then. So pleased to hear you have set yourself a new goal of ten years.

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Freda
25/3/2019 02:41:35 pm

I think it may have been more native forest though the arboretum may have been started and as you say, immature. Very fairy tale like though.

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Viv link
25/3/2019 03:04:41 am

Go for it...I will still be reading in ten years.
I wonder if they resemble the Pearly Gates in anyway just looming out from nowhere as if in some enchanted wood.

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Freda
25/3/2019 02:42:34 pm

Enchanted is the word (your cards are enchanting too Viv!)

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Lotta
25/3/2019 03:57:53 am

Glad you are going for gold! And can I offer up a challenge? There is a 106 year old blogger in Sweden apparently... could you keep going long enough to break her record please??!

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Freda
25/3/2019 02:44:07 pm

Well I do like a challenge Lotta! Would like to know more about how she does it I think...

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cath
25/3/2019 10:04:22 am

The initials are so elaborate that I cannot make them out. Can you?
Beautiful craftmanship.

Pity about the uninviting weather though, did you see promising signs of spring?

I am happy with the aim for ten years.

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Freda
25/3/2019 02:46:11 pm

J D for James Duncan Cath. Will write a little more about it...
Camelias and rhododendrons were our.

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