Rain

 

We've had a good cleansing rain which we were sorely in need of.  They told us they would be fertilizing this last week.  They sure enough did just that. 

Wow. 

This is an organic farm and it's all natural and nontoxic but pretty, um, potent. If was more mystical I could maybe spin this into a metaphor about rising from the dung heap and such.  As it is all I've got is this – it smelled really bad. : ) 

Three cheers for rain! 

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gathering

 

It worked. 

Turns out the phone wiring in the farmhouse needed to be reconfigured, so that was done today. And here I am, images virtually flying onto the screen.  I hardly know where to begin.  So much has happened. Since we have been all about apples lately, and because these make me smile, I am sharing the "pretty" orchard pictures of the little girls who daily want to gather more into their baskets and beg big boys to take them over to the trees. 

These were taken earlier in the season before the cold set in.  Like I said, so much has happened.  It will be fun to catch up. 


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Cambridge in Color

 

I had forgotten about these images still on the phone from our shopping trip to Cambridge earlier this month.  Maybe you'd like to walk along?

We start this leg of the trip strolling through the marketplace late in the day as things were wrapping up. 

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A visit to Cath Kidston of course! 

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A shop all red and polka dotted with vintage goodness. I could live here. Might be overstating since my home seems to be making ever greater inroads into Old World golds and wines vs vintage red and turquoise. That doesn't deter me from lingering a good while however!
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Market flowers.  Can't get enough. America needs far more vendors with big buckets of blooms. 
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Ely Cathedral

A cloudy day in Ely. First stop, the cathedral. 

 

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Right this way…

 

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God bless 'em they wanted some ten pounds per person to cross that rope.  I do miss the free access to cathedrals on the continent. 
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Graves in the small side yard.  
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Staffer chatting along the alley way outside some admin offices. Wardrobe selections for both are very typical of this area. Men are in ties and I would guess at least a third of the women are in skirts.  In fact I saw a groundsperson brandishing a leaf blower in heavy tights and a skirt.
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Case in point.  A woman out front putting her collie through the paces. 
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Love that blue door.  Love.