Turfing

__________Just a quick note… I have been assembling this for a couple of days, and have had remarkable ill luck finding images etc., so I have had to wing it a bit, and bring in one of my favourite Victorians: Albert Joseph Moore. I hope you like his work.This edition revolves around Ella Young, friend [...]

“Evening at the River” by Christoph Gerber (2002 and 2004)

“It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.”
-Arthur MachenNo truer words… I have a life that can like many, be measured out by ones many failures, and on occasion, some success. I have [...]

I have been working on this for a few days, I was happy to discover the poetry of Petôfi Sándor, a poet of national standing in Hungary. I stumbled on him and saw some of his work… fascinating how a poet/person can have such an effect on their people/country. One poem, and the world [...]

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw [...]

November 11 – Armistice DayClick on the pic…
I had scads to write about it, about the differences I have seen it honoured in the US, and in Europe and it seems profoundly different. Instead of belabouring that point I had a good memory that ties into the day. When we lived in London there [...]