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"How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice..." - George Eliot Continue reading

Posted May 15, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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checkers

Posted May 13, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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April showers bring...

Flowers don't worry about how the're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful. - Jim Carrey That's my thought for the moment. Actually I have a lot of thoughts at... Continue reading

Posted May 9, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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of bagpipes and buttresses

My husband and I snuck away to Lincoln overnight last weekend. It was a fantastic relaxing trip. The castle heights area near the cathedral was charming. We walked and walked that evening and ended up back up the hill as... Continue reading

Posted Apr 29, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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you're getting warmer

"...warmer, warmer, NO! colder, ICE cold!" Did you play that game as a child? We are playing a similar game in England lately. It was cold, cold, cold and then we had a few gloriously sunny weeks. The flowers erupted... Continue reading

Posted Apr 28, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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Spring lambs in the Cotswolds

Posted Apr 27, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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What's your super-power?

About a year ago I took pictures of this awesome family to hang on their father's (husband's) hospital walls. It's been a big year. There was a valiant battle with a rare sarcoma. There was loss and there has been... Continue reading

Posted Apr 26, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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Fortune runs against the bias...

Queen: What sport shall we devise here in this garden, To drive away the heavy thought of care? First Lady: Madam, we'll play at bowls. Queen: 'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs. And that my fortune... Continue reading

Posted Apr 24, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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Visiting with Jane

Of course our main motivation for visiting Bath was Jane. My middle girls are not as bookworm-ish as their brothers but they are definitely enraptured with all that Jane's heroines embody - virtue, wit, style, class and ultimately in my... Continue reading

Posted Apr 23, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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Celebrating nature in days past

Ecologically minded media would have us think that the cultivation and preservation of natural resources are newly discovered concerns. Visiting the grounds of old manor houses indicates otherwise. In fact in the days before the state came on board, it... Continue reading

Posted Apr 22, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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Lincoln in springtime

“I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with.” -Vladimir Nabokov We have passed a long weekend walking in Lincolnshire. Up and down steep cobbled streets, up and down spiral castle towers, and... Continue reading

Posted Apr 21, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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hitting the road

Couldn't say where. All I know is the weekend involves a suitcase and a picnic basket. : ) Continue reading

Posted Apr 19, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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of dust and dollhouses

Once again I attempted Bath pictures and they got eaten up. It's a bad idea to try to do much online in the evenings here. Our connection speed drops quite a bit and becomes downright erratic when others in the... Continue reading

Posted Apr 18, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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I shouldn't laugh. (...as hard as I am ) ; D

Commented Apr 18, 2013 on what mae was doing while I wrote that last blog post (or "why I haven't written a post since february") at a gypsy caravan

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Ready for Takeoff

That's Sarah - bold, joyful, exuberant and about to graduate. I was as emotional about her senior session as I was about my own daughter's. Her journey overlapped with our's our the past three years and we are better for... Continue reading

Posted Apr 17, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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enjoy the ride

Posted Apr 16, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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tea with the queen

Because I am easily amused. : ) Continue reading

Posted Apr 14, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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looking around lately

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. - Gaston Bachelard Happy weekending to you. Continue reading

Posted Apr 13, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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The Old Mill Stream

Pictures are piling up again. Spring is finally here it seems though, and we have been enjoying it so very much. So while I promise Bath news is coming, meantime I leave you with the old mill stream - literally.... Continue reading

Posted Apr 11, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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going places

I had a long rambly post about mid-life redirects and change and daring to reinvent oneself. And Typepad ate it.right.up. Not meant to be apparently. Suffice it to say if I have talked to you lately, and you are looking... Continue reading

Posted Apr 10, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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English Breakfast

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?"... Continue reading

Posted Apr 9, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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B & B

“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.” - Maya Angelou Continue reading

Posted Apr 8, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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sense and sensibility

Any guesses where my girlies and I are this weekend? : ) Continue reading

Posted Apr 5, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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Sanctuary

(Chapel of St. Margaret and Our Lady - Oxburgh) Continue reading

Posted Apr 4, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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Inside Oxburgh

While the scavenger hunt held the attention of the children this weekend I was every bit as excited to see Oxburgh since the hall is now open for the season. It has a bit of a split personality, decor wise,... Continue reading

Posted Apr 2, 2013 at Starry Sky Ranch

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