This is the wall of a building next to the house. I liked the texture of the stone wall; most buildings in this are are constructed from local stone like this, and the fences which in the south would be hedges are stone walls here.
We spent the morning in Kendal, the nearest large town, searching for replacement contact lenses for Ros. Having found them, we went to a pub just outside of town for a nice lunch.
After lunch, we went to Blackwell, an Arts-and-Crafts house filled with original furniture. While the furniture and house were designed by major figures in the Arts-and-Crafts movement (Charles Rennie Mackintosh, for example), much of the furniture was constructed in Kendal by a woodworker named Simpson. In the first photo, Ros and Tony are waiting for me to finish taking pictures before going in; the second shows a view of Blackwell's garden. No photos allowed inside.
Ros shopped for plants, while Tony and I went to Dove Cottage, one of William Wordsworth's homes at Grasmere. "-mere" means lake, so it's not Lake Grasmere. Note the Japanese tourists outside the cottage in the first photo. In the second, Tony is in the cottage's back garden. A very interesting place to visit, which had at one time been filled with very interesting people. I was reminded of a visit years ago to the Alcotts' house in Concord, Massachusetts. Again, no photos inside.
We went to the town of Hawkshead, with lots of quaint shops. Here's one called the Honey Pot, and sure enough, they stock every kind of honey imagineable.
This building looked like any of the houses in the town, but look more closely at the signs on the front.
The street sign on this building shows that the town council is attuned to what sells. Wordsworth attracts more people than leather, rags, and putty.
Then there's the door on this house. I can't decide if the sign is a tongue-in-cheek name for the cottage, or truly a warning.
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