Peregrinations

Shottery is the suburb of Stratford-upon-Avon, where Anne Hathaway's family home stands. I was there in August of 2005.

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I said something on Facebook about the many bouquets of flowers that arrived in the hands of friends for The Last Bash, so today's travel pictures take you from my house to my garden where I captured them all before they fade. The hydrangea with accompanying daisy are from my neighbor's garden. The others range from minimalist in a jar to the lush of red and pink roses, with all the glory of the summer garden in between:

Lorrie, who steals any show.

Michael and Mary and Melissa and Johannes, who make dinner taste twice as good.

Kasandra, of blessed memory. Walking home together in the early early mornings.
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20 years ago. My first Fair. Waiting for a friend outside the Dragon Gate. I hear a cheery "Hi, Barbara!" from somewhere behind and above me. I whirled around to see a woman I had met only a couple of times before, towering over me, dressed in flowing green, on a pair of stilts. Lorrie and I are good friends today. I haven't seen her on stilts lately - she loves to make costumes and entertain people on The Eight, the pathway that winds through the fairgrounds in the vague shape of a figure 8. Read more about The Wedding Party

Switches for witches. I bought two at the Oregon Country Fair!

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Here's to the Oregon Country Fair!

The Grand Poobah wouldn't miss it for the world.

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Legend has it that Joseph of Arimathea brought the Holy Grail to Glastonbury and buried it at the purported entrance to the Underworld at the foot of Glastonbury Tor. Read more about Magic Trees

I believe this is a willow, not a laurel. Still, this pairing of woman and tree in the Sissinghurst Castle Gardens cannot be other, to my mind, than the story of Daphne. If anyone reads another tale here, please tell it to me.

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I don't know her name - the leaves look like beech to me. I saw her at Stourhead.

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A couple of years ago, I flew to Boston, visited shrines right and left from Cape Cod to Burlington, VT. By the end of the journey, I had circled back with one more shrine on my list. The home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Cambridge, MA. Read more about Three Trees