Packed and ready to go early this evening, we shall dine on pizzas. Also have a bit of a migraine but hey-ho. So a few photos and a poem by Auden, because all things come to an end, and I mean Trump not myself by the way;)
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| Whitby and its new slab of marble |
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| Solva woods, probably an old path to Middle Mill |
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| Hole of Horcum |
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| A place I never managed to walk to. Carn Alw (Fort of Echoes) Iron Age fort with a Chevaux de frise in the Prescelli hills. I am not sure I took this photo so feeling guilty. But I could have taken it from Foel Drygarn fort with its three large barrows |
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| The 199 steps in Whitby |
"The laws of Icarus is something Trump has to face." Hits the spot precisely. An interview between Alistar Cambell and Jon Stewart.
Musée des Beaux Arts
By W. H. Auden
December 1938
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
I love your photos, Thelma. I think I always mention my print of Whitby that hangs on my living room wall that I found at a thrift shop. I'll never get there in person so I'm glad to see it in your photos.
ReplyDeleteI'm doing a No Kings protest tomorrow with my sister. We are hoping to see millions joining in across the country. Oh, we can't wait for this administration to be gone.
Well take care tomorrow at the protest Ellen. I think he is failing quite rapidly, something will have to happen. Unfortunately it may not be for the best.
DeleteBeautiful photographs, though the Whitby steps made me dizzy! Enjoy your weekend.
ReplyDeleteWell if you had the Barghest Dog chasing you down, you would fly like the wind Janice;)
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