Wednesday Evening - Waiting for Thunder...   "I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness;  I hear the approaching thu...

~ Merry Christmas, Everyone! ~   Closeup details from the astronomical clock in Lund Cathedral  - - - "It did seem t...

Stained glass window and votive ship Allerum Church (Skåne, Sweden)  "Every day is a journey through a sea of time. To live i...

"A rose is a rose is a rose" /The line is from Gertrude Stein's poem Sacred Emily, written in 1913 and published in 1...

Skanör Church, Skåne, Sweden Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 1 Corinthians 13:7 Cf. The Fourt...

♫ ♫ ♫ Ain't talkin', just walkin' Up the road around the bend Heart burnin', still yearnin' In the last outback, at t...

“Art is in the Eye of the Beholder”… Did you know? … that the person credited with coining the saying “ Beauty is in the eye of the...

For me, ever since my own childhood, lilacs in bloom (and that scent in the air) is very much associated with the beginning of summer. This...

  ‘But the really significant thing was the inscription on the tomb. Rex Arthurus. Britannorum Rex.’ He looks expectantly at Ruth, who is...

“Then we had talked for about an hour about politics and God; for men always talk about the most important things to total strangers. It is...

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your...

• Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page “She found it absolutely ...

• Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page . . .    ‘It was dark a...

“I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they wer...

This week (in honor of her brother-in-law turning 50), Deb at Booking Through Thursday asks us to: “… please pick up your nearest book or ...

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn...

“In many ways Anne and I had been two unrelated planets, separately orbiting the fiery star of the Stansburys.” (p. 25) “We were all so bu...

“Without his camera he didn’t see the small poetic vignettes of war, he saw the whole God-awful mess.” From The Secret Keeper by Kate Mor...

“Later, Laurel would wonder if it all might have turned out differently had she gone a little more slowly. If, perhaps, the whole terrible ...

Among the blogs on my dashboard reading list there is the mysterious Ten Thousand Questions , which keeps asking daily questions without co...