April 3, 2020 at 7:31 pm (destinations, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Albuquerque, Cornwall, England, Fowey, Fowey Festival, Fridays, London, memories, New Mexico, nostalgia
This week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge is DISTANCE.
These days, everyone’s talking about and hopefully practicing “Social Distancing”. Since it’s something we should all be doing, we thought a challenge focused on DISTANCE might be an appropriate reminder of its importance.
Self visited New Mexico over the holidays. The place still fascinates.
Cranes in a field near Albuquerque, New Mexico: Late December 2019
Self loves London’s bridges. She loves the view, she loves the bustling river traffic.
London, November 2019
Finally, self was fascinated by Cornwall, which she visited for the first time last May, to attend the Fowey Festival of the Arts (Traditionally held in May, the festival’s been postponed to late September),
Sailboat near Fowey, Cornwall: May 2019
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 30, 2020 at 1:18 am (Books, Places, Sundays)
Tags: Brideshead Revisited, England, English writers, novel, Oxford, reading lists
It’s not like self is even getting that much of a Catholic vibe, to be honest.
What she is getting a lot of are the aesthetics of being young, male, white, and attending Oxford:
It was the last Sunday of term; the last of the year. As I went to my bath, the quad filled with gowned and surpliced undergraduates drifting from chapel to hall. As I came back they were standing in groups, smoking; Jasper had bicycled in from his digs to be among them.
I walked down the empty Broad to breakfast, as I often did on Sundays, at a tea-shop opposite Balliol.
Oxford University, November 2018
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March 27, 2020 at 9:08 pm (destinations, Holidays, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: blogs, Cee Neuner, New Mexico, photography
Cee Neuner: Pick a topic from this photo.
Possible topics: black and white, tree, sky, road, vanishing point, landscape, horizon, clouds, weather, country side, early morning, or come up with your own topic.
Self picked SKY.
All from her first visit to Santa Fe, New Mexico, late December 2019
Museum Hill, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 28 December 2019
On the I-25 from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, 28 December 2019
Still on the I-25, Still 28 December 2019
Check out these other takes:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 27, 2020 at 8:15 pm (Books, Conversations, Places, Recommended, Surprises)
Tags: Brideshead Revisited, England, English writers, Fridays, novel, Oxford, reading lists
Brideshead Revisited, Book One, Chapter One: Et in Arcadia Ego
“Gentlemen who haven’t got ladies are asked as far as possible to take their meals out in the next few days,” he announced despondently. “Will you be lunching in?”
“No, Lunt.”
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March 27, 2020 at 2:06 am (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Places)
Tags: England, English writers, reading lists
from the Preface to Brideshead Revisited:
- It was impossible to foresee, in the spring of 1944, the present cult of the English country house. It seemed then that the ancestral seats which were our chief national artistic achievement were doomed to decay and spoliation like the monasteries in the sixteenth century. So I piled it on rather, with passionate sincerity.
Guest Bedroom, Fowey Hall, Cornwall, May 2019
Front Parlor, Fowey Hall, Cornwall, May 2019
Fowey Hall, Cornwall, May 2019
He wrote the Preface in 1959 (Brideshead Revisited was written in 1944) and it’s even truer today, 60 years later.
Stay tuned.
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March 26, 2020 at 11:29 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Places)
Tags: England, English writers, nostalgia, novel, Oxford, reading lists
from Frank Kermode’s Introduction to Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh:
- The beauty of the city itself, in the days before it was quite ruined by the motor car, was enhanced, at any rate for its transient occupants, by its being an almost exclusively male community. Waugh remarks that few of his contemporaries had ‘any serious interest in women’ though ‘very few have developed into homosexuals.’ They were in some respects, he said, sophisticated, in others barely adolescent.
Stay tuned.
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March 13, 2020 at 11:33 pm (destinations, Family, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Places, Traveling)
Tags: art, British Museum, Fridays, London, memories, museums, Redwood City
For the first time in over 10 years, self went to the supermarket and bought a bottle of vodka. In the back of her mind was something a friend had told her: that alcohol contains a natural anti-viral agent. The vodka was set out right at the end of the liquor aisle, an open invitation: Smirnoff, Ketel One, Grey Goose, Belvedere. She nearly picked up the Smirnoff then decided that if she was going to self-isolate, she deserved the best.
In the meantime, she’s cleaning out the closets in son’s room. And found a whole bunch of Lego figures. She scattered them on the floor and took pictures. VOILA! Scale!
For contrast, a picture she took in the Antiquities gallery of the British Museum, May 2019:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 8, 2020 at 2:26 pm (destinations, fpj-photo-challenge, Holidays, Links, Places, postaday, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: England, Holidays, London, memorial, Oxford, World War I
Miriam Hurdle: “I am fascinated by the reflection photographs in the lakes, the rivers, the building windows, the sunglasses, the mirrors, and the puddles.”
Self is, too!
Here are three from her archives:
- Two snapshots of the London Eye, taken from the next bridge over, November 2019
- Lily Pond in Front of Christ Church, Oxford, UK, 11 November 2019 (Armistice Day)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 6, 2020 at 6:26 pm (destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Niece, Places, Traveling)
Tags: breakfast, Cee Neuner, Doreen Fernandez, happiness, Makati, memories, Prague, restaurants, reunions, The Philippines
WHAT FUN! Self loves Glass, Cups, and Saucers. Just in general. Thank you, Cee Neuner!
Good morning, Silay! Hometown of Dear Departed Food Writer Doreen G. Fernandez: Self visited in September.
Gamboa House, Silay: September 2019
Hello, Ateneo Classmates! Reunion Dinner
Makati, September 2019
Hello, Prague! At the Globe Bookstore/Coffeeshop. Self was in Prague with her niece, Irene.
May 2019
What a year 2019 was!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 1, 2020 at 8:47 pm (Artists and Writers, Conversations, Explorers, Filipino Writers, Philippine History, Places, Sundays, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: historical novel, The Philippines, work-in-progress
Chapter X of Camarote de Marinero
Who Owns This Island?
The Philippines, 1652
The soldiers spotted Ka Bukay, standing uncertainly at the edge of the forest. Ka Bukay had taken the precaution of laying down his bow and arrows.
“You there!” a soldier called out to Ka Bukay. “Who owns this island?”
Ka Bukay knew Spanish, for he was intelligent and besides had worked on a mission on the next island, before coming home to Isla del Fuego.
“God,” Ka Bukay answered.
“No,” the tall soldier responded. “Spain owns this island.”
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