A giant bee crafted from twigs. Superstitious charm or art? I don't know!
Unfortunately there wasn't anyone around to ask why there is a very old baptismal font in one of the barns. Enquiring minds would like to know.
The cover of said font.
Laundry drying on the hedge.
Inside the dovecote, looking up.
Palmer's Farm house. This was for decades thought to be the home of the Arden family, including Shakespeare's mother Mary, née Arden. In 2000, it was discovered that this was the farm belonging to neighbor Adam Palmer. Still -- a lovely and interesting 16th-century building. The Arden home is nearby, though rather heavily modified in Victorian times.
Mary Arden's Farm in Wilmcote is one of the five properties comprising the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Today the property includes two houses, a number of barns and outbuildings, and is operated as a working Tudor-era farm, with people in Tudor garb going about the everyday farmwork. They keep the usual farm animals -- horses, chickens, geese -- as well as rare breeds of goats, sheep, and pigs.
I had hoped for a few more "Tudors" about to chat with, but perhaps it was too early in the day, as the ones we did see seemed quite busy, so that I didn't want to interrupt them!
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