My idea of paradise is a perfect automobile going about thirty miles an hour on a smooth road to a twelfth century cathedral.
(Henry James)
image: Christie B. Cochrell, Lindisfarne (early 12th c.)
About Me
- Christie
- Creative writer - Traveler - Archaeologist manque - Ardent lover of the play of light, the journeyings of time, things ephemeral and ancient
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