Chocolate Box Cover

For reasons that I won't go into, but which were "beyond our control" we lost most of this morning, so didn't get to do what we had planned.
Undeterred we set off about mid-day and went to the cemetery as we had lots of planting to do. That completed we called in at Anne Hathaway's Cottage. Annie was Shakespeare's wife and this was the house she lived in before their marriage. It's a mile or so out of Stratford, and just around the corner to where I went to school. We have an annual ticket for all of the Shakespeare properties, so it's a nice place to pop in for a coffee and a meander.
It was looking particularly lovely today from behind the lupins, so with "LoveLupins17" in mind, I went for this shot. 
My "extra" is the view from the top end of the garden as seen through a willow sculpture.