Blowing a hoolie

Not really. This is New Place in Stratford-on-Avon, and the tree is but one of several statues in the lovely gardens. This is the biggest bronze sculpture of a tree  in the world and was made using a mould of a specially selected hawthorn tree.  
New Place is the site of Shakespeare's house that he bought in 1597, some years into his marriage with Anne Hathaway. He was doing much of his work in London at the time, so travelled back and forth from Stratford, a journey by horse-back of about 4 days. It's not known how frequently he made the trip to see his family.
Sadly, the original house was demolished in 1759 by its then owner who was fed up with tourists coming to gawp. 
New Place was closed for renovations and archaeology for quite a few months, but re-opened to the public again late last summer.  This is the first time that we have visited New Place in some time, however I use to live only a few hundred metres from here when I was a child, down the lane to the left of the timbered building in the distance. New Place Gardens were then my beautiful playground, as they were for our son when he was a little boy. 
My extra is the bluebells in Oversley Woods, where we took the boys for a walk this morning.