Author - Paul Schatzkin

The undercroft of Lanercost Priory in Cumbria. This is a preliminary edit on the first new “Portals of Stone” entry from this trip. It’s a quick edit, but should be enough to give you some idea what I’m up to…

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Everywhere I go on this trip… I keep thinking I see stars…
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It’s called “Sweetheart Abbey” in honor of its foundress, the Lady Dervorilla Balliol, the wife of Robert Balliol, who figured in the Wars of Independence with Robert the Bruce etal. After Robert died in the Battle of Banockburn (the one that Robert the Bruce won in 1314, winning Scotland’s independence from England – for a while, anyway), Lady Balliol had her husband’s heart embalmed and carried it with her in a small casket for the rest of her life. When she finally died, the monks at the Abbey she’d founded buried her with the embalmed heart, and then renamed their monastery in her honor.

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Sunrise over the village of New Abbey, Clouds over Criffel

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I’ve been up almost every morning on this trip before the crack of dawn. This morning I got back on the hill above Sweetheart Abbey to see what I could make of the sunrise. There’s more where this one came from.

Speaking of which: somebody asked me once if I had a preference, shooting sunrise of sunset.”

It didn’t take me long to answer: “generally, by sunset, I’m already awake…”

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Literally… this “just caught my eye” as I was returning to the car after shooting the sunset from the hill behind Sweetheart Abbey…

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