Day 180 – Spires of Oxford
“I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky.” ~ Winifred Mary Letts These are the beautiful ancient spires of Magdalen college, Oxford
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Oxford
29
Jun
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17
Jun
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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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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