This is a mostly visual post, where I just want to share some images with you.
I recently spent a few days in a very beautiful country house, and was captivated by some of the objects found in and around different rooms, as I felt these reflected the stillness of the place and carried some of its history. I spent many hours in the library, where the display cabinet looked quite different depending on the time of the day: in the mornings it was bathed by warm light while later in the afternoon, as the sun went down, it looked much cooler and almost grey.

This battered little sculpture of a lady and a cherub acted as a door stopper in the library and was usually in my line of sight from the sofa where I spent long periods reading or drawing each day.

The greenhouse was my second favourite place after the library: I felt a great sense of stillness there and enjoyed seeing how the Winter light moved around surfaces and objects at different times of the day.