The oldest portion of the Gwydir Castle manor house. It was built around 1500.
From the back.
Side view.
The path to a side garden and to the hidden car park.
They have quite a flock of peacocks who are unpinioned and fly onto the roof and the giant old trees.
A formal garden
Ox took this one for Gwennan.
I was mesmerized by the purple sky. This is around 9PM at night, and of course, it's still daylight. But the clouds turn blue-grey and purple.
This is the view I was looking at, but the picture doesn't do justice to the colors and you can't see the mountains on either side which we'd just driven through.
The dining room in our wing of the house. (Built more recently in the late 1500s.) Amusing to see my Powerbook amidst all the medieval setting.
Alarmingly, this is the view out the window at 9:30PM. The sun did finally set a bit after 10:30.
The door to my room near the stairs.
The four poster bed and fireplace.
Fireplace and a portrait of the Duke of Beaumont (if I remember correctly.)
One of the lurcher.
A window seat in our dining room.
The new Shrewsbury Castle.
The decorative tower at the top of the mot, where the original timber castle was. You can see the outline of the stone castle that replaced the timber castle (but is also now gone).
The river where Brother Cadfael always finds murder victims in Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael mysteries.
It's a pretty little tower.
Parts of the wall looked like they might be older than the 1700s castle.
Lilacs are blooming all over here.
More mountain lice.
Maggie escaping with her purchases from the Castle Bookstore in Haye on Wye.