time-wreaths

Updated: June 16, 2025

We are surrounded by old houses, but cannot easily find them, and when discovered they almost crumble at the touch they fade away as if by magic; and there is a halo of mystery, we might almost say of sanctity, about them which is indescribable; it is as if the blossoms of an early age still clung to the old walls and garlanded with time-wreaths their tottering ruins.

Henry Blackburn - Normandy Picturesque