The
area around Hadrian’s Wall, the liminal borderland at the edges of the map of
ancient England, of the extensive Roman Empire, did not contain the monsters drawn into
the farthest reaches of explorers’ maps—only this amiable cow, and other
affable creatures.
I
would love to be wandering there today, enjoying the greenery and light rain
and a prawn sandwich—or egg and cress.
Instead
I am lazing here, reading a new mystery in the company of the vicar (or canon,
actually) of Grantchester. The
toasted brown hills of California in the summer are far indeed from the thirty
shades of green that paint the English landscape, and the calling of the sheep
one to another reaches me only faintly, in my “mind’s ear.”
image: Christie B. Cochrell, Ancient British
Cow
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