Wordless Wednesday: Vacation, 2000

  We went to Wisconsin Dells in early August.

the only time we ever stayed at a hotel/resort with both a pool AND a beach

Such as it is, the sketch

i might come back and make a finished piece out of this, but the purpose was to have fun with my pencils in the hour or so of decent light.
Here's a couple photos: https://wondersandmarvels-wonderfull.blogspot.com/2020/03/not-quite-wordless-wednesday-field.html

Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: The Field Behind

  A few weeks ago, we drove to Boom's wedding.
  Google says it's 16 hours drive from here, but, what with my needing to get out every couple of hours, we had a motel for a couple of nights each way.
  This was the 2nd one.

  i spent a half hour sketching the view.  The photos, at the beginning & end of the session, do not show the change of light clearly enough. But it does show clearly how wet the weather was: the bench is on concrete, not in a pond!

Wordless Wednesday: Bridge of Character

This is in Danville, IN, on Cartersburg Road, just south on where Old and New US36 come together. 

  Today we came home via backroads.  i love not only the arches on this bridge, but the twining vegetation.

Wordless Wednesday: Recent Trip

Wordless Wednesday: Two Trips to Cumberland Falls

The earlier trip, right, it looks like i was, quite reasonably, nervous about being perched there.  The later trip, left two photos, i remember thoroughly enjoying myself - and my dad got in trouble with my mom when she came back!

 Hmmm, on looking at this again, i wonder if that WAS Cumberland in the 3rd photo.  The falls are much closer, and the railing is different.  i might think it was Niagara Falls, but i'm pretty sure my trip with MyGuy about 15 years ago was the first i'd been there.

Anyone have any thoughts?  i know my parents were quite the road trippers.

The Park

How likely is this? Passport Description in Novels

Some of my recent reading:

• Sayers' Clouds of Witness
• Christie's There is a Tide, aka Taken at the Flood
• Christie's The Secret of Chimneys
• Christie's So Many Steps to Death, aka Destination Unknown

 Maybe i'm making too much of this, but

Wordless Wednesday: Dreaming of a Tropical Sunset Again

Words on Wednesday: Did Agatha Christie write a Bodice-Ripper?

   In last week's Words on Wednesday, i wrote about the late Christie novel Passenger to Frankfort, and observed from the linked articles that it was similar to the early effort The Man in the Brown Suit.
  So

Wordless Wednesday: Art from a Photo

The photo is from the 2008 trip MyGuy and i took to Hawaii.  The view is from the shelter on Spencer bBach north of Kona on the Big Island. 

Story from an Old Song

i wrote this last summer; i don't think i posted it then?
Anyone recognize my inspiration?


I was on my way out to gather eggs when i saw them.  Two

Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: French Cathedral

Chartres Cathedral, 1976, from the edge of town

One of those Photos my friends thought i shouldn't take: One of the gorgeous, famous stained glass windows in the cathedral - not enough detail to determine which

Words on Wednesday: Biography

The current, and soon to be past, selection of our Village of Merici bookclub

  i've seen biographies of varying complexity.  This may be

Wordless Wednesday: King Ludwig's Private Jewel Palace

The "backyard" at King Ludwig's Linderhof Palace

Wordless Wednesday: The Palace and the Church

The Church of Sacre Coeur at MontMartre, Paris

The Quote: "Life does not consist in how many breaths you take, but in how many moments take your breath away."

MidWeek Photos: Scrapbook Pages without Photos

Title Page

Wordless Wednesday: Castle or Palace?

Hohenzollern Castle: never used as fortress, but built where former castles WERE

Everybody's Favorite Fairy Tale Castle, Newschwanstein, a mad king's fantasy

Wordless Wednesday: Do i know this Fountain?

Wordless Wednesday: Soldier Train

Wordless Wednesday: from my art class

The original photo showed two more arches and interesting branches from teacher Laura's trip to the Alamo.  i snipped the photo and pasted the greenery & branch from other parts of the photo..