Day 168 – Holywell Cemetery
“The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can’t come out and those outside don’t want to get in.” ~ Arthur Brisbane
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Oxford
17
Jun
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10
Jun
Day 161 – Chapel at Magdalen College
“The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one to comprehend […]
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1
Jun
Day 152 – Republic of the grave
“In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.” ~ John James Ingalls
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31
May
Day 151 – Holywell Ford
This is Holywell Ford in Oxford. It is part of Madgalene college. I believe now that it is student accommodation but years ago it was a family home and where my Father grew up as […]
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25
May
Day 145 – Oxford ways
“When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin […]
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18
May
Day 138 – Cloisters
“I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.” ~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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17
May
Day 137 – Dobby Free!
“Harry Potter set Dobby free!” “Least I could do, Dobby”, said Harry, grinning. “Just promise never to try and save my life again.” ~ J. K. Rowling
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15
May
Day 135 – Show off fritillary
“Some pretty little girl in a bonnet that inspires a Shakespearean sonnet. Better yet, a woman’s choice of millinery to walk a fashion show off fritillary. To church or same gandiose Easter parade that gleams […]
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14
May
Day 134 – The Bodleian
“The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand about it, something difficult to understand unless you had spent your evenings there or walked past it […]
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2
May
Day 122 – Snake’s head fritillary
“There is a kind of cult around Fritillaria meleagris—the snake’s head fritillary—to do with its looks and its name and the fact that the kind of garden in which it thrives is not necessarily the […]
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