Here is a little jaunt we took up Mt. Landing Creek on Sunday.
I cross this creek twice each day I go to town and in the autumn it is particularly beautiful. But I haven't been up it in years.
So Sunday, BD launched the motor boat and off we went to explore the magic that's in our back yard. All the dogs came with us and
had lots of opinions about what they saw, heard and smelled.
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What I'm Reading
What I've Just Read
I know I'm coming to it late but I have been in a 30 year thrall with Follett's Eye of the Needle and had not wanted to read
anything else of his because that had been one of my few Perfect Reads. When one has had perfection one doesn't want to tamper with
that pure pleasure by trying to top it. I shan't re-read it either, since a Perfect Experience depends so much on where you are at the
moment. If I'm not in the same place when I re-read a book, I may not have the same reaction. Far better to hold on to the memory of
perfection.
I was willing to give this one a try because it was so different from his regular spy/thriller/adventure stories. I figured I'd be less
likely to make comparisons. I was right. The sweeping saga of midieval cathedral buildilng caught me up for a delicious week of
reading. I loved imagining England full of wilderness. I was a bit surprised at the amount of traveling - and the distances traveled -
by folk who were not particularly wealthy, but that was just a wee bit of a literary leap and heck, how would I know how far a skilled
craftsman might journey 800 years ago.
That civil war between Maud and Stephen that brought Henry II to the throne is fertile ground for many authors - I am thinking here of
Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael novels and my own beloved Roberta Gellis' admittedly tawdry titled, but oh so wonderfully
written The Sword and the Swan
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What I've Just Watched
What those stars mean
Could just barely stand it - but something made me want to see how it turned out
EH.
Good but with serious flaw/s - or else trivial, in a Frosted Flakes sort of way