Seeing Anew

Morning sketch.

The Nimishillen Creek gets its name from local Native American words, ni (creek) and missilla (black alder tree, aka American Winterberry )...

Ploughman's lunch in a riverside pub in Bourton-on-the-Water.

We stayed overnight at the White Hart Royal Hotel in Moreton-in-Marsh, across the street from Mrs. T. Potts tearoom.  Moreton-in-Marsh fea...

Market Hall in Moreton-in-Marsh.  Each of the Cotswolds villages we passed through seemed to have their own distinctive market hall at the ...

Stopped overnight here on the way from Wales to the Cotswolds.

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales) .  One of the great libraries of the world, both when it was founded (1907) and to...

George Borrow, Victorian travel writer and author of Wild Wales , stopped here at The Inn at Ponterwyd, on November 2, 1854.  We stopped h...

One of our best meals during our travels!  Roast beef, yorkshire pudding, roast pork, applesauce, cornbread stuffing, gravy, horseradish sa...

The rolling hills and bald mountains around Ponterwyd must have made very challenging walking for George Borrow.  In particular, I don'...

On the other side of the dike is the Dyfi River, and beyond that the hills above Aberdyfi.  The air was positively balmy today.

A meadow full of baa-ing sheep, purple foxgloves, and the Dyfi estuary in the distance made for a very peaceful morning walk at Ynys-hir N...

Dyfi Iron Furnace was built circa 1755 and sits astride Afon Einion. The waterwheel drove the bellows for the blast furnace, and nearby woo...

The River Einion tumbles through Artist's Valley in Wales. I can see why artists were attracted to this valley: the water was crystal ...

We stayed at an old Victorian hotel on the Aberystwyth seafront, and every evening we enjoyed magnificent sunsets from our window.