Hope
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” ~Winston Churchill
So Many Reasons to Love London
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” ~Samuel Johnson I first visited London when I was 21 years-old. I was on a study abroad program while an undergraduate at Hollins College (now Hollins University)—a four-year, private women’s college in Roanoke, Virginia. To this day, I believe that my time living and studying abroad had […]
Tuesday Tunes: Carry On
Waiting for a train London Underground (Tube)
Friday Farm Favorites: Sudeley Castle Gardens
Whenever Farmguy and I visit the Cotswolds, we always make a point of spending the day at Sudeley Castle near Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, England. The present structure was built in the 15th century and has nine individual gardens. These lovely and historical gardens are associated with four of England’s queens—Anne Boleyn, Katherine Parr, Lady Jane Grey, and Elizabeth I. […]
The Weekly Bleat: Green and Pleasant Land
Some of you who read this blog may remember my fondness for England. It’s because of my time spent there as a student that I came to love so many aspects of that “green and pleasant land.” One of the memories I treasure is the beautiful Scottish Blackface sheep grazing in the fields and meadows. It was this lovely, bucolic […]
Tuesday Tunes: Holiday
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As a child of the 80’s, I grew up listening to Madonna and Cyndi Lauper as well as other artists; however, in eighth grade, I was probably more of a Cyndi Lauper fan. Much to my mother’s chagrin, I occasionally sneaked out of the house wearing iridescent pink and green eyeshadows applied in a…
Friday Farm Favorites
“A cup of tea would restore my normality.” ~Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay
Friday Farm Favorites
Bibury Beans, 30″x 30″ mixed media (oil and ink) on canvas by Katherine Dove For those of you who follow this blog, you may remember that one of my favorite places to visit is the Cotswolds. The Cotswolds is an area in south central England that’s about an hour and a half west of London. It includes the counties of […]
Friday Farm Favorites
Farmguy and I were in England a couple of weeks ago on vacation. We stayed in the Cotswolds area not too far from a town called Broadway. Broadway is a charming place with a number of fantastic art galleries that we always enjoy visiting. A friend recommended that we stop by John Noott Galleries as they have a variety of […]
Tuesday Tunes
Photographs taken from Broadway Tower Worcestershire, England “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~Viktor E. Frankl
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