Books and Writing - All Souls Series by Deborah Harkness #3: "With you I have a beginning, a middle and an end." - Page 9

**LilMouse** · 05-11-2021, 08:58 AM

I'd take lots of walks if I had such nice scenery around me.

**BehrItAll** · 05-11-2021, 07:55 PM

Walks in the rain too.

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Tulip beauty - so lucky to have these in my garden, so far withstanding the recent stormy and squally weather.

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Apparently there was a storm earlier to which I was completely oblivious - I was lucky to leave work to bright light, clouds and some great puddles.

**LilMouse** · 05-12-2021, 10:10 AM

Gorgeous flower.

IDK about walks in the rain, though.

**BehrItAll** · 05-12-2021, 06:34 PM

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Pastel baby pinks and blues - the Harris Manchester houses on Holywell looking pretty as a picture in the puddles.

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Today I stumbled across another piece of Lost London: the 1504 gate that once led into the grand priory of the Knights Hospitaller, also known as the Order of St. John. Like the Knights of Lazarus and the Templars, the Hospitallers started out in the 11th and 12th centuries as a crusading order. By 1504, they had been in England for four centuries and grown fabulously wealthy through real estate holdings throughout Europe and the Holy Land as this gatehouse shows. Most surprising to me was not finding this trace of them, but that not a single person passing through it gave it a second glance. One man stopped as I stared up at the gilded bosses and fan vaulting and asked me what this place was and why I was so interested in it. I just told him I was a historian and left it at that.

**LilMouse** · 05-13-2021, 12:34 PM

Very artsy shots there.

**BehrItAll** · 05-13-2021, 08:52 PM

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In reflection - the Hertford magnolia tree in the corner of Radcliffe Square is now in full leaf, making a striking puddle companion for the Radcliffe Camera.

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Rainy day view - Oxford stone under leaden skies today.

**LilMouse** · 05-14-2021, 12:14 PM

I spy people

**BehrItAll** · 05-14-2021, 07:31 PM

Big bike city?

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Puddle view from beneath the Bridge of Sighs with the Sheldonian and Clarendon Building captured under a statement sky.

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A beautiful frame of golden broom for the golden stone of New College beyond.

**LilMouse** · 05-15-2021, 01:59 PM

That building and the way it's framed is lovely.

**BehrItAll** · 05-15-2021, 06:48 PM

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Fresh spring greens frame the rainbow bridge over the Port Meadow stretch of the Thames this morning.

**LilMouse** · 05-16-2021, 02:35 PM

That'd be a nice place to stand

**BehrItAll** · 05-16-2021, 06:36 PM

Yea. Right in nature.

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All Souls with wisteria and a plump pigeon on an unexpectedly blue-skied Sunday morning.

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Wisteria over the entrance to the Old Parsonage hotel - smelling and looking delightful.

**LilMouse** · 05-17-2021, 11:37 AM

I almost couldn't find the pigeon.

**BehrItAll** · 05-17-2021, 06:41 PM

Oh I didn't see the bird!

This place would be fantastic to sketch.

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It feels as if May has been a month of rain this year but at least the puddles have provided some reflective magic - here Keble College, with attendant bicycles, looks majestic as always.

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Bright early morning sunlight casting tree shadows against St Cross College on St Giles.

**LilMouse** · 05-18-2021, 09:09 AM

You can have a lot of fun sketching the shadows and reflections

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