Mauri and Sherry

Posted By Sherry on June 19, 2008

Not much time for stories today. The pictures will have to talk for me.

A ground-level view of the cloister. Our second-floor room looks down on the center.

Not everyone was totally engaged in the topic…but for the most part we were. [I type this at a computer next to the instructor, with whom I shared this picture. She took it well.]

Mauri’s camera is always ready to shoot critter sightings.

I’ve always been a grave reader. Family stories are full of loss and I think someone should appreciate that loss from time to time. Last evening after worship (which meant 10 p.m.) we attended a Taize service in the small chapel there in the cemetery.

You might imagine our rooms allow little room for “changing our minds,” but Mauri made the window alcove into a reading (and nodding-off) nook.

Here Mauri rehearses the small part he played in last evening’s worship service. He’s up in the music loft of the Abbey.

Always up for a game of hacky-sack! Bonnie, the sister of two Basset hounds, willingly gave it a try.

The brother is Badger. We enjoyed chatting with their owner, who vacations on the Isle of Iona every summer from the south end of England.

We’re a little shutter happy, as you can see. We’re shooting St. Martin’s cross, which has been standing in that particular place for more than a thousand years. Imagine!

That’s our photo essay for the day. Cheerio!

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