Good Fences and an Early Anglophile Friday

Behind Richmond Castle

Some of you have already seen this photo of the River Swale behind Richmond Castle, North Yorkshire. I figured that a second look couldn't hurt, right? Besides, it's one of my favorite views.

Another favorite Richmond photo

BREAKING NEWS:

Our youngest son's wife is in labor with their first child right now, which is quite exciting. She's been in the hospital for 38 hours now. I'm expecting to meet that little boy child later today! Daddy has been sending me text updates.

Other, not so exciting news: I've been in the midst of canning green beans and freezing peaches. I plan to get a lug of peaches today at the local farmers' market and can them, if I can find some that can wait a few days before they need canning. I was hoping to can without any sweetener, but read that the sugar helps retain the texture, shape, and color of the peaches. Maybe I can use an extremely light sugar syrup. The home-canned peaches, SO much better than disgusting store-bought canned peaches, remind me of days past, when my mom canned peaches in the late summer. She would serve them as a dessert at Sunday dinner, always one peach half on a leaf of lettuce, topped with cottage cheese. I didn't eat the cottage cheese, but it probably was not a bad idea to offset the sugar in the peaches with the protein in the cottage cheese.

This weekend we'll be gone to a little grandson's birthday party. Friends will stay in our house and take care of the house and animals. It is wonderful to have someone we can trust to step in and take care of things while we're gone. I'm hoping to enlist them next spring for a longer trip, still in the hopeful planning stage.

Little Birthday Boy
4 years old next week

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Columns, Walls and Floors - Anglophile Friday

Fountains Abbey

Part of the original tile floor in the priory at Much Wenlock, built in the 1100s.

 Columns at the ruins of the Cluniac Priory at Much Wenlock

Late afternoon at Rievaulx Abbey

Just behind Richmond Castle

York City Wall

Yorkshire Dales

You didn't seriously think you'd get out of here without at least one photo of sheep, did you?? And I thought I'd give you a closeup of that drystone wall so can see how the stone are laid. Can you imagine how long it would take to put one of these up at the perimeter of your yard? In Yorkshire, they're everywhere!

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Some of my Favorite Views of Yorkshire - Anglophile Friday

View (looking northwest?) from behind Richmond Castle
The River Swale, hence, Swaledale

View of Reeth

View from top of White Horse

View above Grassington, I think.

View from Hardraw Force

View of Askrigg from the A Road (A684 I believe)

View from West of Leyburn
One of my very favorite photos with two essential elements:
Yorkshire/Scottish black face sheep and drystone walls

View of Penhill, a very imposing and distinctive landform, from Bolton Castle grounds

 View of Askrigg Common
A lonely Yorkshire/Scottish blackface sheep

Another view of Askrigg Common in March
BLEAK

 Messy map showing many of the places named in this post.
Grassington is farther south and the White Horse is to the east.
Hardraw is just at the west edge (left) of the map.

Believe it or not, all those circles and symbols help me see the place names better. :-)

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