Elizabethwix

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• Winter Reading

  

  When not rushing around taking photos, writing, walking the dog, gardening in a very confined space and, occasionally, cooking, you will find me with my nose... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Deck the Halls...

  

  Well, actually no holly here though the holly trees round here are full of berries.At the green market however...there are wreaths galoreand garlandsand... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• It's Getting to Look a Lot Like...

  

  Mid December and the days are getting shorterand the dawn coming later...The birds are enjoying the last red berries on the trees outside our building. (Top... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Childhood

  

  This is one of my blog posts to be filed under 'other places'.I think the place where you spend your first ten years is more firmly etched in your mind than... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Thanksgiving

  

  I have a lot of things to be thankful for.Here are some of them:This is my good friend Knutty who came to play last week. I have known him for a very long... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Walking

  

  One of the good things about the city versus the suburbs and almost counter intuitive is that in the city one tends to walk more.Because I have a dog I'm... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Melancholy

  

  "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness..." Creeper aglow on the seminary wall and more of the same and more and more. A last rose photographed on Veterans'... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• High Line by Night

  

  Even though I live very near it, you haven't heard much about the High Line from me lately.That's because in the immortal words of Yogi Berra - "Nobody goes... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Halloween and Fall in General

  

  I have not written my blog for a long time because there has not been a lot to say.As you know, it is fall now...when the leaves fall off the trees and there ar... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Nature Study

  

  When I was at primary school in England in the 1950's we had "Nature Study" classes - but in fact we seemed to spend most of our time doing 'nature study' on ou... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Oh Dear!

  

  While wandering round St.Agnes' convent in Prague, where there is a most splendid collection of International Gothic art, I was struck by the number of most... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2014 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Halloween

  

  Yes, the day approaches when...the strange creature flies over the churchwhile the deities look on.The old churchyard gives up its secretsand the sacrificial pi... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Walk by the River: Prague

  

  One of the pleasures of visiting a foreign city is merely wandering aimlessly around. These pictures were taken the Castle side of the Charles Bridge. We did no... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Grand Budapest Hotel Or Hotel Imperial

  

  We were enchanted by Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel - a wonderful, over the top extravaganza of a movie - a mishmash of Mitteleuropa, 20th century history... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• More Ordinary

  

  A tram goes past on Na PoriciIn response to Frances and others yesterday - yes, I do rather tend towards recording the pretty bits - in the blog anyway.I... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Statues, Shop Windows and Doors Through a Lens

  

  More Prague - and since I have Hipstamatic on my phone herewith some pictures of:King Charles right by the Charles Bridgea statue adorning the bridge - rather... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Veletrzni Palac, Prague - An October Selection

  

  The Czech National Gallery was an amazing treat because so much of the contents were so unfamiliar - lots and lots of artists I'd never heard of before -... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2014 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Czech Food and Drink

  

  Angry Parsnip asked yesterday about Czech food.And yes, it's wonderful and we ate lots and lots of it. Probably too much.But I'll start off with the drinks... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Prague Windows

  

  No defenestrations here...just the charm of a foreign city.All these photos were taken in the old part of town.This one at the Castle.Up at the castle also.... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Bone Church at Kutna Hora

  

  Beneath this rather charming small church about fifty miles outside Prague is an ossuary - a place decorated entirely with bones. See wikipedia hereVery... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL