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Night, one of the cottages in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig
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Here’s how Tina, the host of this challenge, explains the prompt: As we approach year’s end we are looking forward to seeing those images you’ve loved over the past 12 months, but have not yet shared. To me it‘s an opportunity to relive the moments of pleasure we felt as we captured them. The Radcliffe
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Is it the end of November already? That was quick! Thank you, Becky, for hosting another fabulous Squares Challenge! I didn’t have time to look at more than a few galleries, but I’ll keep busy looking at Squares all through December. Pedestrian Bridge Across the River Liffey, Dublin, November
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St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, First Week of May Posting for Becky’s November Squares Challenge.
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River Mill, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, April 2025 Posting for Becky’s November Squares Challenge.
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Russell Square, London Posting for Becky’s November Squares Challenge. There’s quite a large shadow beneath the foreground tree, but it got cropped out when I made the photo into a square. There’s another, smaller tree shadow behind.
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The host of One Word Sunday is Debbie. River Mill, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland (April 2025)
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The host of this lens-artists challenge is Egidio/Through Brazilian Eyes. Scrolling through his gallery, I see that a quote accompanies each picture. There are many wonderful quotes, but my favorites are by Paulo Coelho and Fernando Passoa. Check them out here. Sharing some pictures I took when I was visiting Hampstead Heath, in May. In
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One red T-shirt! Posting for Becky’s July 2025 Squares Challenge: Simply Red.
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Excerpt from September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-Second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever hopes expireOf a low, dishonest decade:Waves of anger and fearCirculate over the brightAnd darkened lands of the earthObsessing our private lives;The unquestionable odour of deathOffends the September night. Accurate scholarship canUnearth the whole offenceFrom Luther until nowThat
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Posting for Debbie’s One Word Sunday challenge. The Jan. 18 word is CROSSING. Pedestrian bridge over the Thames, Oxford
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Still reading the fascinating Between Two Rivers, by Oxford Fellow Moudhy Al-Rashid. This author has a real gift for slicing through all the churn of ancient and often undecipherable texts and delivering just the most essential facts (without over-simplifying). Here is what she writes about the Enuma Anu Enlil, a textbook of “astronomical omens” which
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Posting for Debbie Smyth’s Six Word Saturday. I did not post as much in 2025 (or it felt like I didn’t, anyway), so it is nice to look back and see what I actually did. I was able to pick a favorite photo from each month of 2025 except for November. Here are the captions:
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Just started reading Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History. It is fascinating. I love reading ancient history, and the author, Moudy Al-Rashid, has a very fluid style, and she is constantly pointing out parallels to our present-day challenges, which makes the book very accessible. Of all the Mesopotamian seats of empire,
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Marianne Villanueva 