#173: Footprints
‘The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other,… but to be with each other.’ – Christopher McDougall, Born to Run
Tag: Portrait
#166: Edward Lear
‘The Owl looked up to the stars above, And sang to a small guitar, “O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are, You are, You are! What a beautiful Pussy you are!’ – Edward Lear
#165: Raspberry
‘Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.’ – Ruth Reichl With so much sun and so much rain, my garden is thriving despite my best efforts. Look – raspberries!
#161: Badger
‘No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season’ – Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows An old photo of some of the best wallpaper that I have ever seen!
#158: Cathedral
‘It is well that there are palaces of peace And discipline and dreaming and desire’ – C.S. Lewis Christ Church College, Oxford
#156: Under the tree
‘I shall go and sit under a tree…. Which tree, Mma?… Oh, there are many trees in this life, she said. It does not matter which tree you choose, as long as you choose the right one.’ – Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
#155: The Great Hall
‘It was lit by thousands and thousands of candles that were floating in midair over four long tables, where the rest of the students were sitting…The hundreds of faces staring at them looked like pale lanterns in the flickering candlelight…It was hard to believe there was a ceiling there at all, and that the Great… Continue reading #155: The Great Hall
#154: Eager
‘Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.’ – Samuel Johnson Photograph of a page of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition, published 1766
#152: Red kite
‘The freedom of birds is an insult to me.’ – Cormac McCarthy
#151: Hellfire Caves
‘There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.’ – Mary Shelley, Frankenstein A photo from my trip to the Hellfire Caves in West Wycombe. One of a number of creepy faces carved into the plaster and stone walls… To see more #NSFW photos from our underground adventure, check out my… Continue reading #151: Hellfire Caves