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2018 in photos

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Click on any photo for the full version! Happy end of year!!

  • The final tally, before collapsing in exhaustion.
  • Fruit.
  • Am loving this soda!!!
  • Looking at Manhattan.
  • With Isabella, a junior at Burroughs.
  • Before leaving my hotel.
  • Kurt.
  • Chase.
  • Audrey and Eden.
  • Audrey.
  • Austen.
  • Luke.
  • Karen went home with this family Bible from my great-grandparents Carter.
  • Conservatory 50th Anniversary – Donor Dinner-Bust Unveiling
  • View from inside the Kremlin to one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters.
  • A lone daffodil.
  • Noah
  • Ben
  • Jacob
  • Dianthus.
  • My Tuesday lunch of Swedish meatballs, whipped potatoes, pickled cucumber, and tart lingonberries.
  • Stockholm from my hotel room.
  • Detail, crown of Stefan Bocskay. Turkey, 1605.
  • And we crossed the city limits a few times.
  • The official Christmas 2018 portrait.

London: Friday and Saturday

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Photos from Friday and Saturday in London and away . . . .

STREET SCENES:

The Shard peeks through the leafless trees.
HMS Belfast and Tower Bridge, on a gray day.
Friday morning: a line for breakfast.
A lone daffodil.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE:

Countryside.
My friend Robin lives in the mews on an estate. This view is from his front door.

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM:

The remnants of a Japanese fighter from WWII.

And this: the London flat of Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty:

The blue plaque marks the home.  This is a block from my own flat in Lambeth North.

Easter Sunday 2018

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Easter Sunday 2018. London, England.

I attended the standing-room-only festive Choral Eucharist at Westminster Abbey this morning. Tourists were everywhere, but enough of us were taking matters seriously that I knew I was in a holy place.

On the way to communion, I walked right over David Livingston’s grave!

And the Dean himself, The Very Rev. Dr. John Hall, administered my communion this morning.

At noon, with the service ended, I found the sidewalks around the Abbey and Parliament Square and Westminster Bridge to be jammed with tourists on a very chilly early Spring day. So half-way back to my flat, I jumped on a bus for the final blocks.

Luncheon was a Sunday pub meal of pork roast, crackling, Yorkshire puddings, potatoes, carrots, broccoli, parsnips, and applesauce. And a Fuller’s London Pride. I couldn’t finish it all!

Oh — and kale. I didn’t even try.

Now for Evensong at St. Mary’s Bourne Street, with the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The music list includes Harwood in A-flat, one of my favorite settings of the Mag & Nunc.