“The main house on the estate was a 32-room mansion, and Wright had three artificial lakes constructed, the 9,000+ acres lavishly landscaped and reeking of wealth and means. Perhaps the most famous addition to the palatial properties was the underground conservatory/smoking room with aquarium windows, an epic statue seemingly rising out of the manufactured lake…
31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN – Day 18
Time to show you some more photos of the cemeteries we explored on our honeymoon. There photos were taken at Pere Lachaise, the very famous burying ground in Paris. It is where such famous people as Jim Morrison, Chopin, and Oscar Wilde. It is also a beautiful place to wander around. Have you been to…
31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN – Day 5
I always visit an old cemetery when I can. There is something so comfortable about them. It’s quiet and peaceful, sometimes with lovely paths or discoveries to make. It’s not a macabre thing for me; I truly enjoy thinking about the people and the history that is there. When on our honeymoon last summer I…
Paris Review – Dreaming in Welsh, Pamela Petro
“Ahead of me the Beacons’ bald, grey-brown flanks were furrowed like elephant skin in ashes-of-roses light. It soon became chilly but the ground held onto its warmth, so that the hills began to smoke with eddying bands of mist. That dusk was unspeakably beautiful and not a little illicit. It seemed, for a millisecond, as…
DAY SEVEN of RURAL ILLINOIS 2012
The last day of any trip is always bittersweet. The dread of the long car ride, the return to work, leaving family yet again. But there is the promise of sleeping in your own bed, reuniting with the dog and seeing if you got anything good in the mail. Our last day in Illinois was…