Top: Fairy tale architecture at Rock City, atop Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, Tennessee blended an enchanted style with the natural surroundings. + + + I grew up in a place, and currently live in a place, where the word enchanted is almost taboo. Saying something is enchanting here would get you weird looks, and people […]
Sunrise, the gift of stillness
The river Avon, somewhere in Wiltshire The sunrise is stillness. It’s why it’s so easy to remember a morning like this one. You just need to be still and wait for it. You can hear the memories of a sunrise if you listen, thumb back through your index cards of previous sunrises, till you come […]
Running from the storm
I was living on Long Island, a hurricane was bearing down. The question was, would it strengthen or weaken? The consensus was it would weaken, so now evacuations took place. I had the weekend free, I wanted to be in New England for the storm. It was Thursday evening, I decided to be on the […]
Today’s Marginalia: Station Two of the Glencolumcille Tura, a pilgrimage on the edge of the world
Glencolumcille, or in the Gaelic, has been a religious site for over 5,000 years. It was one of earliest Christian sites in Europe, dating to the sixth century. The landscape around the village is dotted with ancient sites from the neolithic period, but the Christians turned the landscape into a stations of the cross, based […]
At Monkton Farleigh, the ghost of a very thirsty monk
There once stood a priory in the village of Monkton Farleigh, in Wiltshire. This small village is blessed, or cursed with a handful of hauntings. The building above, built in the eleventh century was a conduit for water to run to the priory, which now sits in ruins near the site. It is said that […]
Into the dark witchwood looking for the cabin of Cato the witch
I have a tendency to be a hermit, and of late, I’ve had more reasons than usual to hide from the world as much as possible. But it’s autumn, and from what I see out the window it’s been beautiful out there. The brilliant fall colors have started to fade and die, so I figure […]
View of Bath From Solsbury Hill
Bath is a an utterly gorgeous British town, with architecture ranging from the Roman to the present, with a firm roots in the Edwardian and Georgian eras. Solsbury Hill which overlooks the town was the site of an Iron Age hillfort, over a thousand years old. Its main claim to fame though is a song […]
Old Sheldon Church Ruins, ravaged by war, haunted by a saddened mother
The ruins of old Sheldon Church, in Beaufort County, South Carolina is one of the more lovely abandoned places you can find. Destroyed once by the British in the American Revolution, and ravaged from General Sherman in his march to the sea in the Civil War, the chapel, in its moss draped surroundings has seen […]
