Today I went for a stroll down by the old harbour in the historic seaside town of Weymouth in Dorset. The late winter sun came out and promised that warmth is soon to return.
As I passed by the harbour master’s offices, I glanced up to a small, weathered plaque high up on the wall that I hadn’t noticed before. I stepped closer to read it and then felt the hairs on the back of my neck rise and goosebumps on my arms…
Phew! That’s quite some plaque…
A visit to the Desert View Watchtower on the eastern portion of the Grand Canyon’s South Rim. Constructed in the 1930s, it offers magnificent canyon views and a tie to the Native American history of the Canyon.
I was visiting a friend, and this was the view from their house. I could understand why they built their house facing this direction. I was taken by the beauty!
Samantha shares some street art pictures from her recent trip to Bogotá, Colombia.
A garden in South Wales is the topic of today’s post from ProfessorAbe
DrFumblefinger shares photos of the Fitz Roy Massif, one of the most famous and difficult to climb peaks in the world, situated in Patagonia.
After I wrote a few words about the floating fisherman’s villages in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, I was asked by
The sign of times soon to come! This was my first summer solstice sunrise at Stonehenge in England and I
Now I’m really deep into my shoe box of interesting photos of unusual things to share with my chums at
The story of the Black Death and it’s ongoing effects over the centuries is a fascinating one. One of the most evocative places I’ve been in England was to Eyam in Derbyshire, where houses have signs posted at the sidewalks for passersby to know the individuals and families taken by the plague. The village is not an empty museum site, but a living place, attached firmly to it’s history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyam One of my all-time favorite books is ‘Year of Wonders’, by Geraldine Brooks, telling of living through the plague in such a village. Very moving. Thanks, Mac, for this bit of the puzzle, the beginning. Very important.
Amazing how a small bacteria can change the history of the world….