Feeling the need to escape the rain we popped over to Yorkshire for the day to visit Stillingfleet Lodge Nursery which is just a few miles South of York and opens at 1pm. As expected when we crossed over the top near Huddersfield the rain stopped and being early we decided on a bit of culture and visited Selby to see its Abbey which dates back 900 years. Following this as truly retired people we sat in a laybye and had our packed lunch before moving on to the nursery. The gardens attached to it are very lovely and well worth visiting as is the nursery for its selection of hardy perennials.
The first four pictures are of the abbey with its Norman door, a tomb cover from c1400 and its 13th century stained glass East window
The rest are of the gardens with the last being a swarm of bees which were on a tree by the pond.
It had stopped raining when we got home and the sun was shining,a pleasant day.
