Sometimes visiting ruins can be a bit of an adventure! Especially when a church service is about to start and cars are arriving and blocking your exit from the car park.
A Bit of an Adventure, originally uploaded by KirscheTortschen.
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Filed under Anecdotes, Faith Foundations, Heritage, Out & About
A Bit of an Adventure
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 29th 2010
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Dodging Raindrops
Enjoying some peace and quiet in a lovely setting.
Dodging Raindrops, originally uploaded by KirscheTortschen.
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 28th 2010
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 22nd 2010
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, York 2010
PhotoHunt – Numerical
This is the Hindley clock which is located in York Minster. It is complete with sixteenth-century moving figures ‘Gog’ and ‘Magog’.
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
24 Comments CherryPie on Aug 20th 2010
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York Minster – The Chapter House
The Chapter House is tucked away, hiding behind it’s vestibule and on first view it is both a surprise and delight. The octagonal room was completed in 1286 and is unusual in that it does not have a central column to support the vaulted roof.
From the guidebook:
Used from the 1290s onwards for parliaments by [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 21st 2010
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PhotoHunt – Triangle
The painted ceiling in the Chapter House of York Minster is made up of triangles. The ceiling was restored in 1845 with ‘Agnus Dei’ central boss.
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
20 Comments CherryPie on Jul 16th 2010
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Testing Email to Flickr to Blog
For some time I have been meaning to try out the option of emailing photos to Flickr so that they auto-post on my blog. I know it worked on Blogger, but the photo sizes didn’t go with the templates that were available at the time and as I am fussy about layout I decided [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 25th 2010
