Where in the World?

April 21, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Couldn’t resist sharing ….. This is Killiney beach (Dublin, Ireland) this afternoon. Luckily its within my 2km limit so I get to walk here most days. Mind you, we don’t often see such colours!! ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦

Savannah – away from Downtown: 2.Wormsloe Historic Site

April 20, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

How to describe? Breathtaking, amazing, stunning, magnificent, awe-inspiring, spectacular….. So no big deal then – its just an avenue – leading to a bit of a ruin! But what an avenue! Stretching ahead of you for 1.5 miles, 400 arching live oaks, dripping in Spanish Moss, form a canopy above a packed-dirt driveway. […]

Sculpture Saturday

April 18, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Thank you Sheree from viewfromtheback for directing me towards this weekly challenge from Mind over Memory . I’ve decided to give it a go… I’m starting with this piece from a trip to Bratislava in January 2019. It caught my eye in the middle of a snow blizzard! I only discovered later […]

Some day this will all be yours!!

April 14, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

‘It’ll go straight to the dump‘ is the usual response when I remind my ‘pride and joy’ that I am bequeathing him my collection of travel mugs! I’m just not feeling the love! As my attempts at decluttering will continue for at least another 3 weeks, its time to tackle this ‘display’! […]

Savannah – away from Downtown: 1.Bonaventure Cemetery

April 10, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

There was once a clergyman who was ‘smitten with the beauty of death’. He jumped into the Wilmington River, committing suicide, with the hopes of being buried in Bonaventure. He was convinced that only here, among the stunning monuments and obelisks, could he rest in peace for eternity. Originally part of a plantation, Bonaventure […]