But Chris... I thought you never got snow. ;o)
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The snow is pretty... but I'm glad I'm not in it. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 2/5/2012 11:02 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> > We had a fairly heavy fall of snow last night and it has prompted me to
> get out and take some photos:
> >
> > http://images.threeshoes.biz/photos/i-PZFfLVf/0/M/i-PZFfLVf-M.jpg
> >
> > The first 4 are of my street and my house; the orange cast is from the
> street lights as it was nearly 1100 when I decided to go out and see the
> scene.
> >
> > The following few shots are from a nearby hamlet called Cockayne Hatley,
> St John's Church and graveyard where we went for a walk in the snow. The
> church is quite a handsome one, especially outlined with snow, but the
> graveyard contains the gravestone of William Ernest Henley. I didn't
> really know of him until I first found the grave some years ago, but he has
> written some well-known poems, including "Invictus".
> >
> > The poem on his gravestone (also that of his daughter and of his wife)
> goes,
> >
> > “So be my passing
> > My task accomplished and the long day done
> > My wages taken, and in my heart
> > Some late lark singing
> > Let me be gathered in the quiet west
> > The sundown splendid and serene, Death.”
> >
> > More of his poems can be found,
> http://theotherpages.org/poems/henley01.html
> >
> > The propellor-shaped slate is the memorial to the crew of a Liberator
> that crashed near the graveyard; a training accident after the end of the
> Second World War.
> >
> > All in all, it's a thought-provoking place, especially in the quiet of a
> snowy Sunday morning.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
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