Chaser

Hatchlands Park, a National Trust house and park near Guildford, was my destination today.  The house is tenented by the Cobbe family, and is home to their collection of keyboard instruments, including pianos owned and played  by Chopin and Elgar.  The last room in the tour is the Music Room, a later addition to the house and now used for concerts (it can probably seat 70 or so). The centre piece of the room is a chamber organ built in 1909, and we visitors were fortunate enough to hear it being played by a volunteer organist - it was hard to move on.

Outside, after the obligitory ice cream, I wandered through the grounds shooting butterflies in the wildflower meadows. But the star has to be this chaser dragonfly which I just managed to catch flying over the waterlilies in the "Sheepdip" pond.