Hope you’re enjoying your stay in Scotland, Ian. There are so many excellent Scottish writers & books! My top ten include:
- Kidnapped!
- The 39 Steps
- Sunset Song
- Ivanhoe
- Knots & Crosses
- The Game of Kings
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
- Daughter of Time
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Hi, all #DevonBookHour I absolutely loved A Scots Quair, Ian. Not hard to understand why it was voted Scotland’s most favorite novel. Although it takes place in the long ago and is told in the old Scots vernacular English, the story feels timeless. Def one of my fave reads from last year.📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

thanks!🕊️

Full-length bronze statue of Rev. Father Godfrey Schilling standing with one hand raised as if in benediction, the other cradling a small replica of the church he founded, his long monastic robe tarnished with age (verdigris). On the grounds of the Franciscan Monastery in Washington, DC. (Sept. 2017)

I do love how statues age. #verdigris #patina #bronze
Color: Green (no plants) | ‘Farbe: Grün’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography
#FranciscanMonastery #Washington #DC

thanks, Luis!✨🦆🙏🏻

I love roses, so I’ll definitely give it a go! 📚🌹 #BlueBrewBooks

Thanks, Susan! And for reposting.🙏🏻

Beautiful write-up, Susan! I just revisited Orwell’s “1984”...unnerving! I read a different book by Solnit awhile ago called “River of Shadows”, about a technical genius in motion pictures named Muybridge. Interesting person but dull reading. Glad to hear “Orwell’s Roses” is better!🌹 #BlueBrewBooks

An image of a short poem by Chief Dan George called “And My Heart Soars”: The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, speaks to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dew drop on the flower, speaks to me. The strength of fire, the taste of salmon, the trail of the sun, And the life that never goes away, They speak to me. And my heart soars.

For #NationalPoetryMonth & #StunDay #ImageAndVerse #BlueBrewBooks
here’s a #poem by Chief Dan George called “And My Heart Soars” 🌎🌱

Thanks, Luis!🦆✨

🙏🏻

A simple wooden bridge leads through a green woods as a path between trees. US Arboretum, Washington, DC (Sept. 2023)

“There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
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The way is the goal | ‘Der Weg ist das Ziel' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #nature #USNationalArboretum

so adorable🌞✨🦆

aw, thanks Justine! 🙏🏻🦆💕

A pair of ducklings huddle together on the edge of the Reflecting Pool, their dark beaks and brown and yellow striped heads turning backwards to rest on their fluffy backs. Washington, DC (May 2024)

Make way for ducklings
#DucksOutOfWater
#BirdofTheDay
#birds #Birdlife #BlueSkyArtShow #Edge #wildlife #photography #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #ECK

Lovely shot, & well-put post🙏🏻☯️😊

Thanks, Luis, you too!🙏🏻

A mysterious message painted on the sidewalk outside a federal agency in small white lettering: FLY + 1876 Washington, DC (November 16, 2015)

Symbols that could - or could not - mean anything in #Washington I’m not at liberty to say😎
Ground markings |
‘Bodenmarkierungen'
#FotoVorschlag #Photography

Yes, me too. Totally wasted on us in high school! Tho’ I have to say it stuck with me, not so much the story as the symbolism Hesse used.🙏🏻🤷‍♀️ #devonbookhour

Loved The Interpreter of Maladies. Not every short-story collection holds together as well as this one. I marveled at her ability to make these stories come alive on the page. Well deserving of all the accolades.🙏🏻📚 #devonbookhour

I recently reread Siddhartha & enjoyed his search for meaning in all the wrong places—his well-to-do parents’ house, at a courtesan’s pleasure grove, in a mansion he acquires, in gaming halls where he blows a fortune, and finally by a river where he finds enlightenment as a ferryman.🙏🏻 #devonbookhour

Yes, the early books are such fun. Nice to meet someone else who enjoys them.📚🙋‍♀️

He’s such a good writer! Will look out for this one. 📚 #BlueBrewBooks

Loved the 1st one in the series “Silver Pigs” in which smart-alec private informer Marcus Didius Falco gets sent to Britain - then the far fringes of the Roman Empire - to investigate who’s stealing from the silver mines there. Great fun!📚 #BlueBrewBooks

One of my very favorite roses, heavenly scent💕

I think the Haskell book has a different title? Anyway, hope you like Diffenbaugh’s novel The Language of Flowers, too! 🌸 🕊️ #BlueBrewBooks

A dewy pink carnation catches the morning sun on the balcony. Blue sky and tree branches form the backdrop. Baltimore, MD (April 2026)

'Pretty in Pink'
#FotoVorschlag #Photography #BloomScrolling #flowers

No, no👒🤷‍♀️
But I enjoy it even on tv, & of course Dick Francis makes the sport of kings come alive on the page. #devonbookhour🏇🏾🏇🏾🏇🏾

Book jacket of Hot Money by Dick Francis shows a race horse and jockey jumping over a gold-colored dollar-sign hurdle in flames, seen against a red-hot background.

Happy spring/ Happy Easter🕊️🙏🏻 #devonbookhour
I’m reading a Dick Francis, as I’m wont do around this time of year, with the Kentucky Derby coming up soon.🏇🏾🏇🏾🏇🏾

A white lily thrusts through yellow black-eyed Susan’s (daisy). Capitol Hill, Washington, DC (June 2023)

Close to nature | 'Naturnah’
#FotoVorschlag #Photography #nature #BloomScrolling #Gardens #Lilies #Wildflowers