About a mile north of here, from the main
Ashbourne road.
The long shot from my garden. I thought it
worth sacrificing compositional integrity
for the sake of getting that glowering
sky in.
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...until death do re-unite or the Priestess return to Avalon.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self .
This character appears in one of my short stories, and also in the novel. He's sadder than he looks, poor thing.
About Me
- JJ
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
- I've never had money because I've never been driven by money. I received little formal education beyond the age of sixteen, which isn't such a bad thing since you get a different angle on life that way. Learning what you want and need to learn often reveals things that the system's road keeps hidden.
BOOKS
Anyone interested in viewing the availablity of my novel Odyssey or novella The Gift Horse can do so here.
To Be Retained...
...until death do re-unite or the Priestess return to Avalon.
Khalil Gibran on Children.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
OMAR KAYYAM ON REGRET.
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
Herman Hess on Nobility
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self .
Free Fiction
I have another blog called A Handful of Stories on which I've posted some of my short fiction. Most of it has been published by a variety of independent small press publishers, so somebody other than me must have thought it worth reading.
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All the permanent pictures and some of the posted ones on this blog are my copyright. Most of them, however, are placed with a picture library which holds the licensing rights. I don't, therefore, have the legal right to grant permission to use them.
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This character appears in one of my short stories, and also in the novel. He's sadder than he looks, poor thing.
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3 comments:
That last shot looks a lot like the area where i live, outside of the city limits. There aren't a lot of hedges here, though.
I saw a pic on tumblr of the country side in Romania that looked a lot like this area in TN. It must really resemble what it looks like here... Alex and i were watching American Haunting, which is about the Bell Witch haunting that took place in TN. He said he thought it must have been filmed in TN because it looked just like this area... at the end i read the credits and saw that it was filmed in Romania.
Those are beautiful photos, JJ, and what a glorious view you have from your garden!
Andrea: If I ever get to be orally assaulted by the Transylvanian dentist again, I'll ask her about the lanscape of Romania. Neraly everything seems to be filmed there these days, 'cos it's cheaper.
Victoria. I still use 35mm cameras, so these pics are scans from chain store prints. They lose a lot! But yes, the view from my garden is rather lovely, in a lowland English sort of way.
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