I thought it appropriate to delve back into my holiday photos from last year and share some views of a place that I know my Dad enjoyed visiting.
I have previously Blogged about Cragside on several occasions. It is a fascinating place and well worth visiting more than once.
Lovely places and I’m sure your Dad enjoyed them. Thinking of him where he was happiest will help you, dear friend.
Thank you
It is a very interesting place to visit and there is lots to see.
That’s a nice way to go about it.
You must be psychic or maybe I am.
When you posted your sad news, I thought of Cragside.
You may recall, in an earlier comment, that I used to drive along the road past Cragside. It was at a time in my life that matched exactly your situation now. My father was in hospital in Morpeth and I knew he would not return. But along that road every day beside the river Coquet the colours in the trees were almost New England in their intensity and not just the colours. There was a vibrancy, a clarity about everything.
What you saw as you drove home from the hospital was the same as what I saw, as if the veil that shrouds the world had lifted briefly. Gerard Manley Hopkins says it better than I can –
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;”
People will say to you that ‘time is a great healer’ but that is not so. It is a trite cliche. I just posted at Calum’s place about how we need to listen to the minstrels and poets of the world. And one of them, Willie Nelson, declares that unlike time “love’s the greatest healer to be found.” He’s right you know but it is in the giving of love that it will be found.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p610TdtyjYs&feature=related
Take care and vaya con Dios
Perhaps we both are a little psychic.
I do remember your previous comment and the way you have described the trees had brought them vividly to light in my mind. I have never seen a sunset like it in this country before. The sky was orange and the sun was a bright orange disc gradually changing to an intense red colour. There wasn’t I cloud in the sky so the sun was a perfect circle with a different shade of orangey/red behind it.
Thank you for sharing your experience and for you kind words and thoughts.
This is definitely the kind of place I would like to go to.
There is so much to see and do there
It is an utterly beautiful place. Thanks for your excellent photographs
I think you would enjoy a photo opportunity there.