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Night, one of the cottages in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig
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Is it the end of November already? That was quick! Thank you, Becky, for hosting another fabulous Squares Challenge! I didn’t have time to look at more than a few galleries, but I’ll keep busy looking at Squares all through December. Pedestrian Bridge Across the River Liffey, Dublin, November
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St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, First Week of May Posting for Becky’s November Squares Challenge.
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River Mill, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, April 2025 Posting for Becky’s November Squares Challenge.
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Russell Square, London Posting for Becky’s November Squares Challenge. There’s quite a large shadow beneath the foreground tree, but it got cropped out when I made the photo into a square. There’s another, smaller tree shadow behind.
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The host of One Word Sunday is Debbie. River Mill, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland (April 2025)
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The host of this lens-artists challenge is Egidio/Through Brazilian Eyes. Scrolling through his gallery, I see that a quote accompanies each picture. There are many wonderful quotes, but my favorites are by Paulo Coelho and Fernando Passoa. Check them out here. Sharing some pictures I took when I was visiting Hampstead Heath, in May. In
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One red T-shirt! Posting for Becky’s July 2025 Squares Challenge: Simply Red.
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I finished Ninth House last night, and I immediately started reading Book 2 of the Alex Trent Series: Hell Bent. (The only beef I have with Leigh Bardugo is that her titles are so pedestrian. Cool cover, though. Did Darlington turn into a devil hare?) Yale University should thank Leigh Bardugo. I’ve never been there,
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Excerpt from September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-Second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever hopes expireOf a low, dishonest decade:Waves of anger and fearCirculate over the brightAnd darkened lands of the earthObsessing our private lives;The unquestionable odour of deathOffends the September night. Accurate scholarship canUnearth the whole offenceFrom Luther until nowThat
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Posting for Debbie’s One Word Sunday challenge. The Jan. 18 word is CROSSING. Pedestrian bridge over the Thames, Oxford
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Still reading Ninth House and enjoying it, though one scene (where the hero allows the heroine to let her freak flag fly by destroying thousands of dollars worth of Limoges china) struck me as kinda pointless. Anyhoo, our heroine, Alex, needs help to “pierce the Veil” (go to the land of the Not-Alive — of
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She’d learned they loved anything that reminded them of life. The spilled beer and raucous laughter of frat parties; the libraries at exam time, dense with anxiety, coffee, and open cans of sweet, syrupy Coke; dorm rooms staticky with gossip, panting couples, mini-fridges stuffed with food going to rot, students tossing in their sleep, dreams
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My current read is dark academia (not usually my favorite trope, nevertheless I am enjoying this book immensely) and my first by Leigh Bardugo: . . . dealing with ghosts was like riding the subway: Do not make eye contact. Do not smile. Do not engage. Otherwise, you never know what might follow you home.
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Still reading the fascinating Between Two Rivers, by Oxford Fellow Moudhy Al-Rashid. This author has a real gift for slicing through all the churn of ancient and often undecipherable texts and delivering just the most essential facts (without over-simplifying). Here is what she writes about the Enuma Anu Enlil, a textbook of “astronomical omens” which
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Posting for Debbie Smyth’s Six Word Saturday. I did not post as much in 2025 (or it felt like I didn’t, anyway), so it is nice to look back and see what I actually did. I was able to pick a favorite photo from each month of 2025 except for November. Here are the captions:
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