Category: Travel
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Sometimes pigs do play with sticks.
They carry them about in their mouths and have races. TonTon knows this about pigs and sticks, so he is always ready. Boo on the other hand is not invited in for games. Just as well too. He steals the sticks and runs off. The men finished lowering the corn curtain on my third and…
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Wrigley Field: a photographic essay: baseball on the fringes.
Built in 1914, Wrigley Park is known to be the oldest original Big League Baseball park still remaining in America. It is shortly to be cleaned up and renovated a little so John and I went up to Chicago to join Chg John in a last look before it is changed. I had never been…
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A horse is a horse – of course, of course …
The horse riding was as torturous as expected, due to lack of padding between my bony bottom and the saddle. But the horses were fat and happy. We rode for two hours through dense and stunning Canadian forest. We walked single file one horse following the other at a rolling sailor’s plod, the saddles were…
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No horsies today, all lost and gone away
The horses were all booked out, so we postponed and went for another punishing walk.. as high as we could bear, which was not very much higher in the scheme of things, to a little reservoir lake. Then we had a picnic with crostini and olive tapanade and pan fried local steak cut into paper…
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The Hills are Alive
I don’t think it is the mountains intention to make us feel small. The mountain just sits within his height and watches. I think it is us little humans who see our smallness … reflected in a mountains unrelenting gaze. A reminder for us. To nod our woolly heads and say thank you to the…
The Kitchen's Garden 