Happy New Year!

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2023, New Year, solstice, Spring, Stonehenge

Passed the solstice- now on to Spring!!

Photo by Significant Other

Wise Men of Deerhurst

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Christmas, Deerhurst, Frankincense, gifts, Gloucestershire, gold, myrrh, Nativity, stained glass, Wse Men

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Thank you to all my readers and followers- especially for sharing your gifts with me.

Merry Christmas!

Pre-Raphaelites

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Ashmolean, Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, King Arthur, Millais, Oxford, Pre-Raphaelites, Ruskin

From the closing exhibition at The Ashmolean, Oxford

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Chedworth St Andrew’s, Gloucestershire

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Chedworth St Andrew's, churches, Cotswolds, Elizabeth of York, Gloucestershire, Henry VII, winter days out

On a gloomy day.

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

I wonder what kind of day it was when Henry VII

and Elizabeth of York visited?

Stonehenge Reconstructions

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circle vision, equinox, facial reconstruction, Heel Stone, Neolithic, Stonehenge, thatched village

Photographs by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Whirling Dervishes

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Elif Shafak, Forty Rules of Love, Konya, Rumi, Shams of Tabriz, Sufi, Sufism, whirling dervishes

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Just finished reading Elif Shafak’s novel about Shams of Tabriz and his

relationship with Rumi, the Sufi poet.

Threatening Skies Over Burford, Cotswolds

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Burford, church, Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, St Mary's, threatening skies

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart. Giclee prints available. All Rights Reserved

Winchester Cathedral- Tournai Font

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black marble, dowry, font, St Nicholas, Tournai, Winchester Cathedral

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Was Jane Austen inspired by the story of the Bishop helping the three unmarried

daughters with their dowries?

Winchester Cathedral Last Weekend

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choir screen, commemoration, Eucharist, floral tributes, frontal, George Gilbert Scott, Hampshire, Her Majesty the Queen, high altar, Mourning period, Winchester Cathedral

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Timely Injunction?

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Bible, Book of Proverbs, church wall plaques, injunction, King, Old Testament, Wiltshire

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart. Seen in a Wiltshire church