I’m getting ready to go on a two-week road trip – business, family, etc. – back to my old NJ/NY/CT stomping grounds. Before I depart, I’ve been thinking about: what do I really need...
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As I suspect many readers have gathered by now, I dipped a toe back into “the socials” last week. Most notably, I reactivated the Facebook account that I deactivated for a variety of...
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Everybody fire up yer radios! Wednesday night – well, actually, Thursday morning – I will be a guest on the Coast to Coast AM radio show with host George Noory. Coast to Coast “…airs on...
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Some of you know that for the past couple of months I have been ‘laser focused’ (I actually hate that expression, but it does seem to express the ADHD way I go at some things) on the...
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As Philo-The-Third told me, his father – Philo T. Farnsworth The Second – had ‘two major cases in his life. The first was electronic video. You wouldn’t be looking at this if he...
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So that I could just put it all in one place… Little Green Boat – the poem I mentioned I wrote that describes how everybody in the neighborhood knew what was going on except us kids...
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Arthur, Harvey and Paul ca. 1953. The kid on the right is the only one still living. Not shown: mother Ellen, sister Dorothy aka Dotsie _________________________________ September 30, 1958 Ellen has...
Read MoreFrom the ramparts atop the keep at MIddleham Castle in Yorkshire, England. This was one of the prime seats of the Neville family, who fought with the Percy’s for control of The North and figured prominently in the Wars of the Roses. Richard III spent a lot of time here as a child.
The GPS says I’m on “Abbey Road.” Should I get out and walk?
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…
I have returned to the UK in search of more “Portals of Stone” – Send destination suggestions to [email protected] .
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This is Glenluce Abbey. Nobody at Historic Scotland bothered to tell me that it’s closed for the winter when they sold me a photography permit for this and several other sites that are closed for the winter. Fortunately, a young lady who was doing some restoration work on the site took pity on me when I showed her my permit and and let me wander the grounds for about two hours. This one will definitely show up in the next “Portals of Stone” series.
I’m pretty sure I’ll be seeing stars in this one… I have returned to the UK in search of more “Portals of Stone” – Send destination suggestions to [email protected] .
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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.
I have returned to the UK in search of more “Portals of Stone” – Send destination suggestions to [email protected] .
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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…”
Literally… this “just caught my eye” as I was returning to the car after shooting the sunset from the hill behind Sweetheart Abbey…
