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August 2024

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  "I am glad as a child, in this beautiful weather; I have tossed all my burdens and trials away; My heart is as light - yes, as light as a feather;- I am care-free, and careless, and happy to-day. Can it be there approaches a dark, dreary to-morrow? Can shadows e'er fall on this beautiful earth? Ah! To-day is my own! No forebodings of sorrow Shall darken my skies, or shall dampen my mirth." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, from "Summer Song" - Me and my Swedish Brontë friend Malin at Ponden Kirk, Penistone Crag in Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights". Malin reminds me of my childhood hero Pippi Longstocking . Brontë Parsonage Museum. when all the visitors are gone and silence falls upon the Brontës home. August morning in Haworth, Brontë Country. The cheerful pink potted pelargonium on the church steps nods at me as I pass on my way to work.  Sunderland Point, Lancashire  A soulful window. Books and flowers is all I need. Upper Ponden, Stanbury, Brontë
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July 2024

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I'll rest me in this sheltered bower, And look upon the clear blue sky That smiles upon me through the trees, Which stand so thickly clustering by; And view their green and glossy leaves, All glistening in the sunshine fair; And list the rustling of their boughs, So softly whispering through the air..... Anne Brontë, from "The Arbour" Dramatic Skies Around Stanbury Gothic Woodland Scenes    Portraiture Sculptor Alan Ward in his studio at Lancaster Castle Penistone Hill on Emily Brontë's Birthday (30.7.) Mother Shipton's at Knaresborough Facebook Reel  July 2024 Facebook Reel  
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June 2024

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  Dusk in June Evening, and all the birds In a chorus of shimmering sound Are easing their hearts of joy For miles around. The air is blue and sweet, The few first stars are white,- Oh let me like the birds Sing before night. - Sara Teasdale -  Top Of Haworth Main Street Evening Stroll  Haworth Church Bells on Sunday afternoon Facebook Video  June 2024 Facebook Reel 
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May 2024

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  "The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; the hill-side's dew-pearl'd; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven -  All's right with the world!" - Robert Browning - May 2024   Facebook Reel   Bridlington Harbour 
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Pendle in Lancashire April '24

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  From my visit to Pendle Hill area of Lancashire, beautiful countryside and home to the historic Pendle Witches. In 1612 a group of women and two men were accused of causing misfortune and death through witchcraft. They went on trial at Lancaster Castle and were subsequently executed.
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