tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post2550464747011784800..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Back from the back hillsLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-56622743012991413592014-05-24T22:24:37.791+02:002014-05-24T22:24:37.791+02:00Thanks everyone, I've left comment replying to...Thanks everyone, I've left comment replying too late as ever, but appreciate your responses. <br /><br />In fact we live in a real stone house all the time, but above ground, which I feel is rather better aired and healthier than these trog dwellings, but it was an interesting experience for a short time. I'll try to post more on them soon.<br /><br />The German occupying forces in WW2 left their mark on the hill, also in the form of the good quality road most of the way to the top.<br /><br />The Finistère landscape is very rich and varied, the coastal sections being in turn very different from the interior of course.<br /><br />I am chuffed to bits about being numbered within the Pantheon of Fine Wimmin!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-50284292938083231682014-05-22T00:15:28.796+02:002014-05-22T00:15:28.796+02:00Oh, what fun! And I love the name, Troglogite! Bea...Oh, what fun! And I love the name, Troglogite! Beautiful pix - and I love the post with your friend Jantien's art. Looks like a lovely trip.Leshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13489924859026895536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-13616118252504242372014-05-21T19:31:27.228+02:002014-05-21T19:31:27.228+02:00i have saved picture 6 of 7 and filed it in the pa...i have saved picture 6 of 7 and filed it in the pantheon of fine wimmintristanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-51102385747556432392014-05-20T14:23:51.363+02:002014-05-20T14:23:51.363+02:00You look like sculptures on those plinths, frozen ...You look like sculptures on those plinths, frozen into stillness by the cold wind. <br /><br />So that's the Finistere landscape - impressive. I might be seing it if I make that trip when the book is done. Natalie d'Arbeloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07757081405040926647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-45621786745926243862014-05-19T20:39:17.211+02:002014-05-19T20:39:17.211+02:00Fwoosh! Thanks for the glimpses.Fwoosh! Thanks for the glimpses.Nimblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16426446791363667887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-39581704194599191552014-05-19T16:42:30.511+02:002014-05-19T16:42:30.511+02:00Splendid! And splendidly cold and windy-- the rew...Splendid! And splendidly cold and windy-- the reward for braving the hill would be that view. Are the chapel doors unlocked? Stellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10789646495307544390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-37409112798576436582014-05-19T13:02:35.057+02:002014-05-19T13:02:35.057+02:00I had looked at the 'Pause Nature'
brochur...I had looked at the 'Pause Nature'<br />brochure link that you provided in your last post and was actually travelling along with you in my thoughts. The view after reaching the top of the mountain is splendid although a caressing breeze instead of strong winds would have been more to my liking. It must be the love that you and Tom surround yourselves with that makes such brave troopers of you.<br />Love this 'hobbit hole' idea of a home whilst vacationing.<br />Ready for more.<br /> <br /> Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-91128586344417657242014-05-19T11:45:19.986+02:002014-05-19T11:45:19.986+02:00It looks beautiful and I love the little place you...It looks beautiful and I love the little place you're staying in, I quite fancy living somewhere that looks like that I think!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-51077098549976341152014-05-19T08:14:28.652+02:002014-05-19T08:14:28.652+02:00Your second pic aroused thoughts that surely could...Your second pic aroused thoughts that surely couldn't have been further from yours. How the two deep-seated windows seemed to have been arranged for the purpose of machine-gun fire, ensuring as wide a sweep as possible, while protecting the gunners from a flanking attack. On a journey I have taken virtually every Friday for fifteen years, travelling from Belmont, the Hereford suburb where I live, to the village of Mordiford, I pass by a similar structure (called I believe a pill-box) built over seventy years ago, in this case by those who were called the Allies. It is remarkably well constructed though not as indestructible as the German gun emplacements near you and the submarine pens at St Nazaire.<br /><br />The Third Reich may not have lasted the thousand years its organisers had hoped for but its architecture might.<br /><br />And then in your last sentence you make the reference in passing. Swords into plough-shares I suppose. A day of different purpose and with different aims. What a strange landscape though in keeping with a literal translation of Finistère. Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-33201614559230895762014-05-19T04:08:59.049+02:002014-05-19T04:08:59.049+02:00Lovely. Especially enjoyed another quite rare pic...Lovely. Especially enjoyed another quite rare picture of the camera operator. Is that the turning shaft of a big fixed gun?christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-25945140514268510832014-05-19T00:47:16.492+02:002014-05-19T00:47:16.492+02:00Always wanted to live in a stone house, that one w...Always wanted to live in a stone house, that one would be nice for a week or so. <br /><br />What a place, gorgeous. Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-28927731292341826682014-05-19T00:40:27.597+02:002014-05-19T00:40:27.597+02:00Oh, how quaint - a hobbit house. Lovely views too!...Oh, how quaint - a hobbit house. Lovely views too!<br />Sounds like you had a great getaway.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.com