I was going to stop in Salem, at The House of the Seven Gables, but by the time I thought to look for the exit, I was almost to New Hampshire. Luckily my route circled back through Concord, and that's where I ran into Nathaniel Hawthorne. Read more about Two Spirits of Concord
The Firth of Forth, seen from the battlements of Edinburgh Castle. A lot of cities have cleaned off the smoke and grit of the centuries to become new, beautiful cities in the 21st Century. But I rather like Edinburgh's patina of peat fires, cannon smoke, and the blood of the likes of Macbeth.
They say in the Orkneys that one day the wind stopped blowing and everyone fell over. I hope nobody missed the rainbow.
King Louis VIII to the citizens of Avignon in 1226: "Better fill in that moat. You're gonna want that space for parking someday."
Crossing the Severn Estuary, the M48 Bridge supports rise like giant sails.
Westward on I84 with the skies of home in sight. You can tell by the shadows to the side that the sun is shining. Those dark clouds on the horizon? Rain in the PNW!
It's something I get to do quite a lot, here in Seattle. And every once in a while I can pretend I'm back in England, in the Lake District, walking from Ambleside to Rydal Water.
When I looked at this picture of Powis Castle once again, I thought, "But there's no lake there? Why does the lower half of the castle look like a reflection?" It doesn't, and it isn't, but it has a quality. Yes, it does.
It's a rare snowy morning in Seattle on the Friday before Christmas. Brings out the traditionalist in me. Makes me want to curl up with a good book ( or )and imagine the building of a medieval cathedral. Like this one, in Salisbury.
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This isn't a rock garden. It's a yew hedge at Powis Castle in Wales.
That's Hercules, showing off a bit in the foreground.
It's a very old yew hedge.
Read more about Yew're Kidding!
