Holly’s sabbatical 2013

Walking & Drawing in England & Scotland

A prayer from St. Bede for the sabbatical

Ready to go!

Londonfrom the roof restaurant of the National Portrait Gallery

First sketch of the sabbatical, passing time in the Vodafone store!

Sloane Square fountain – striving for perspective

My first Eucharist in England at the great 19th century Arts-&-Crafts Movement church,

Holy Trinity, Sloane Square

St. Kyneburgha’s, Castor, PeterboroughOur great-grandmother’s baptism happened here in 1879

My siblings and their spouses honor our grandmother Aglae Lyman’s new headstone

The Rev. Canon William Burke with our great-grandmother’s baptism register;Her family’s 17th century home, Castor House

The Castor House Dovecote

Peterborough Cathedral for evensong

On to Oundle, Northamptonshire to walk the Nene Way

Signing into the Nene Way

Public footpath leads to the Saxon church at Cotterstock

Quiet moods of the Oundle River

St. Peter’s threshold, inside & out

The Ship Inn, a good pub

And good pub food! Lancashire sausage & mashed, and berry pudding with custard

Sky? Or water on the Oundle?

Canal boat navigates the lock on the Nene

The Elizabethan Gallery at the Talbot Hotel

Peterborough train station café

The medieval city of York

The ancient walls of York

The York Shambles

The Cathedral & University town of Durham

Outside the Cathedral Close – St. Mary the Less for Evening Prayer

The Castle holds the University

Evensong with the girls’ choir @ Durham Cathedral nave & the encircling River Wear

Moods of the Wear River

Stairs replace streets.. And I sketch them at the restaurant at the top

Walking the River Wear to Crook Hall

Sheep & June grain along the River Wear

The blessed Godric’s hermitage on the River Wear

On To Edinburgh to sing Handel ode

Arthur’s Seat and the view of Edinburgh from the top

Two Sundays at St. Giles Cathedral & the Royal Mile

Georgian Edinburgh New Town: Scotland St.

Old Town Edinburgh and trying for New Town perspective

A trip to Fife: St. Andrews medieval pilgrimage site

A passerby takes a snap… and on to Falkland Palace

Greyfriars Bobby Pub and Rehearsal with LA Master Chorale’s Grant Gershon

Handel’s L’Allegro ed il Pensieroso at Greyfriars Kirk…& two happy sopranos

Princes Street Gardens & tea at the National Gallery

Farewell to Edinburgh

From Edinburgh to Iona, across Scotland

On to retreat on the island of Iona

Arriving on Iona off the ferry

The ferry as I saw it from my hotel window

Iona Abbey & village from the Iona “I”

St. Columba’s Bay on Iona, and in my interpretation

Iona Abbey, prayers at 9 AM and 9 PM daily

The island of Staffa

Puffins & basalt columns on Staffa

Fingal’s Cave

The Iona “I” from the water

Bishop’s House chapel

Prayer in the Abbey chapel

Abbey altar

The side aisle of the Abbey

Iona the last morning

Crossing Mull & Highlands Scotland

A glimpse of Glasgow: Charles Rennie MackintoshThe Lighthouse The Mackintosh Rose

Glasgow School of Art

Back to County Durham

Hardwick Country Park, County Durham

Newcastle upon Tyne – the Sage Theatre

Durham City again

Durham Castle from Silver St. bridge

Durham skyline from the Wear River

Lastingham Church on the North Yorkshire moors

12th century crypt chapel opens in the nave center aisle

Chanted Vespers at Ampleforth Abbey Benedictine monastery in North Yorkshire

Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire

Hiking in Weardale, County Durham

Lindisfarne Island

Lindisfarne Castle & garden, and Holly on the shore

Lindisfarne Abbey

St. Cuthbert’s Hermitage & chapel in the village

Fish N Chips

Angel of the North, Gateshead, County Durham

Escomb Church: the oldest Saxon church in England

On to Swaledale, Yorkshire, via Eden Valley, Cumbria

Draycott Hall & the Coach House, Fremington

Swale River in Swaledale, Yorkshire

Hiking in Swaledale

Enroute to a lead-mining camp on the moors

Looking across the dale at Fremington Edge

Lead-smelting mining camp

The upland moors and an Iron Age fort overlooking Swaledale

Across the ancient stepping stones on the Swale and up the Nuns’ Causey (Causeway)

St. Andrew’s Grinton, Swaledale, inside & out

Ancient convent, Marrick Priory, has become an outdoor center for urban kids

Mine tailings up on Fremington Edge

Views over Reeth and down Swaledale from Fremington Edge

Ancient walls, ancient tree

Muker from above

St. Mary’s Elizabethan church, and view down the Swale above the town

The Swale above Muker, en route to Keld and the top of the dale

Coming into Keld, at the top of Swaledale

Evening over Bolton Castle in Wensleydale