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Saturday's Child
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Musings and observations from my part of the planet.
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Thursday Drive: Glastonbury Unplugged
Day One of a June 2003 visit to Glastonbury UK when no music festival, solstice, or lunar celebration was altering its natural rhythms.On Magdalene Street, across from the entrance toGlastonbury Abbey, looking toward Fisher's Hill.The Market House In...
PFF: Glastonbury Abbey
Thanks to Henry VIII, Glastonbury Abbey became a ruin after being sold and nearly dismantled in the aftermath of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. But even in tatters, its remaining "bones" retain enough of their former majesty to take one'...
Wordless Wednesday: Round Glastonbury
Building on Fisher's Hill, whereMagdalene Street meets Bere Lane,Glastonbury, Somerset, England(Photo by author, June 2003)Alas, the name of the grocer on the side of the building has been erased by wind, rain and time.Other posts in the Glastonbury ...
Tea Things Tuesday: Abbey Tea Rooms
Abbey Tea RoomsGlastonbury, Somerset, EnglandInstead of photographing the many lovely teapots and tea things I was thrilled to find recently at a thrift shop Half Price Day, I've chased the dust bunnies off the boxes of photos and mementos from my fi...
Tombstone Tuesday: Carrie Update
Carrie Frances KIENEMount Hope Cemetery, Topeka KSIt's been a month since I posted "Who Dresses Carrie?". One cold, wet day last week, my friend Lisa and I were curious to see if Carrie's secret dresser had changed her clothes yet.Alas, she was in th...
Wordy Wednesday: Grandma Filley
Sophia Tuckett (nee Fisher) Window Filleyb. 15th Oct 1838, Devonshire, Englandd. 1918, Burlingame, Osage Co, Kansasm(1) Frederick Haime WINDOWm(2) Henry W. "H.W." FILLEYAs the caption on the photo says it was made in Iowa City,Iowa, shortly after Sop...
