Viewing the Last Weekend of Summer<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\nwith Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n <\/p>\n
Did \u00a0you realize this is the last weekend of Summer 2020?<\/p>\n
This weekend \u00a0feels odd, doesn’t it?\u00a0 I am feeling a bit sad inside at the thought of this final few days of the summer season.\u00a0 Each season holds the marks of the seasons \u00a0of our own life span. It is like footprints \u00a0on a sandy beach or like lines on a measuring tape.\u00a0 One by one, year by year, we lay down the marks of our passage.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>photo by Lynda Lambert:\u00a0 Bob and Me as shadows on the sandy beach in Puerto Rico, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n
Birds are singing outside my window this morning. Sun is bright and I see it shining on the old Norway Maple tree outside my office \u00a0window.\u00a0 That tree is enormous and beginning to show its changes the past couple of years. The tree expert told me about three years ago it has begun dying. Bob and I planted that tree as a sapling Bob dug up from the woods, in 1967, after we bought this house.\u00a0 We dearly love this tree and will care for it for as long as is possible.\u00a0 Taking a tree down is a traumatic thing to do.\u00a0 It’s akin to \u00a0losing a member of the family or a best friend.\u00a0 Even more, it is the loss of a piece of our own body for we understand that in the livingness of nature we see a reflection of who we are as well. Creations of an Almighty God who tenderly tends the garden of our lives.<\/p>\n
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I had a cup of hot\u00a0Red Rose Tea<\/a> with a teaspoon of sugar, and in my favorite mug.\u00a0 I\u2019m wearing my winter pajamas! I’ve enjoyed Red Rose Tea for as long as I can remember.\u00a0 It has a taste that is just right, for me.\u00a0 I am so accustomed to the flavor of Red Rose Tea that I can barely drink any other tea.\u00a0 That is how it is with our lives – we find something we like a lot and it becomes a part of us. Red Rose Tea is a part of who I am after all these years.<\/p>\nAs for coffee, most mornings I have a cup of\u00a0Caribou Mild Roast Coffee<\/a> and I drink it from a favorite cup that was hand crafted in a Pennsylvania \u00a0potter’s studio. I have such mugs made by three different Pennsylvania potters.\u00a0 There is something so special about using hand-made mugs and pottery pieces that nothing on the commercial market can compare.<\/p>\n![\"Coffee](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/CoffeeCup2.jpg?resize=240%2C300&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Coffee Cup with Caribou Mild Roast Coffee. Cup hand made at mudmonkey studio in PA.<\/p><\/div>\n
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It is a feeling of the person’s hands that remain in the finished piece of pottery. It’s personal. It’s sensual. It is that human touch that nothing made in a factory could duplicate. It is as though the hand crafted pottery holds the potters life inside of it\u00a0 and you touch that person each time you pick up that cup or bowl.\u00a0 You can see more of this pottery by visiting Mud Monkey Pottery – Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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This morning, I wrote to a friend to let her know I enjoyed her excellent message sent via e-mail. It was the first one of the day for me. Her \u00a0reflections are tender and sweet. I loved being with her as I read her message.\u00a0 She spoke about her dog and her life and the comforts of this cool morning as she prepared a cup of hot coffee and talked about getting out her flannel shirt. You can visit her, too, by going to Campbell’s World Blog by Patty Fletcher<\/a><\/p>\nI thought how our pets and how precious they are \u00a0to us. We could never put a value on them, for they are priceless treasures. I tell my cats and dogs how much I love them, and I tell them I am thankful for this time we are together. I thank them for coming into my life and for being so faithful and loving to me. I try to never take them for granted but to stop and think of the gift they are to us every day that we have them with us.<\/p>\n
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The past month has been a time of change and improvements inside and outside of our home. The kitchen project kept us occupied right now. I call it refreshment and not a remodel., We do not take away anything from the vintage aspects of our century home. We do not tear out anything and put in modern stuff \u2013 we refresh and restore, we do not destroy.<\/p>\n
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Our home is important to us, and we love it. We want it to be comfortable and a beautiful place that makes us smile when we walk in the door. We want anyone who enters our home to feel comfortable and surrounded by beauty \u2013 we want it to be a happy place for anyone who steps in our doors. We began having the entire house done in Puerto Rico color combinations a couple of years before Bob was in the hospital in 2014. Earlier, we had our upstairs bathroom done this way after our daughter,<\/p>\n
Heidi McClure\u00a0 Owner of Sassafrass Hill Studio <\/a><\/p>\nand her husband, Jerry, worked on the walls and ceiling \u00a0to fix the plaster.\u00a0 They \u00a0fixed \u00a0it and it was as nice as a \u00a0new room. Bob painted it in Puerto Rico colors. \u00a0I continued with the updates in painting by having three rooms done while Bob \u00a0was away so much that year. \u00a0He was battling acute myeloid leukemia and had a stem cell transplant in October 2014. That year, we had two bedrooms painted upstairs and his reading room on the first floor was done for him, too. He enjoys it every day since he is an avid reader.<\/p>\n
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We are doing the remaining rooms now.<\/p>\n
Our Kitchen<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Photo_Vintage Hazel Atlas display in vintage cupboard, with our dog Mitchell in the foreground.<\/p><\/div>\n
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For the past month, the kitchen is under attack \u2013 the painters\u00a0 from \u00a0Allwine Painting <\/a>were here for a week every day \u2013 prepping and painting. Now we can finish up with the new floor and backsplash. We went shopping on Wednesday for those items \u2013 my brother and sister-in-law took us and helped us find what we had in mind.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kitchen_the-Last-screw-and-hinge_Sept10_2020.jpg?resize=300%2C246&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Kitchen cupboards painted.<\/p><\/div>\n
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On Wednesday, we went to Home Depot and bought the tile that will be our kitchen floor. We ordered the glass tile that will be our backsplash. The one we picked out is not in stock. We won’t get delivery on it\u00a0till October 14<\/strong>. This glass tile is called ABALONE<\/a> because the glass tiles looks similar to abalone shells\u00a0 that have a reflective quality known as Labradorescence. or AKA, Chatoyancy.<\/p>\nCan you imagine that on the backsplash between the white upper cupboards and the turquoise lower ones?<\/p>\n
I wanted something that would be a powerful connection between the two areas. This brings in our love of nature, too. My brother found this for us.<\/p>\n
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Our new floor will also reflect our love of nature.<\/p>\n
tile for the floor is in large slabs. The floor will look and feel like walking on a shady stone pathway. It will give the kitchen a feeling of something beautiful outside \u2013 stones and rocky ledges.\u00a0 We are crazy for stones of all kinds. We have bowls of stones throughout the house. They bring in good energy, by the way.<\/p>\n
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Of course, we are now looking at the living and dining rooms.<\/p>\n
We are thinking about how we can refresh them later in the year or during the winter months.<\/p>\n
The color on the walls is much too soft, a peach color.<\/p>\n
Pastel colors have white paint added to the primary color. This mixture makes the colors chalky. That is what makes them pastel. I’m not too fond of pastel colors. We are looking at colors now and are considering something in the red family \u2013 I have two couches in the living room \u2013 one is yellow, one is white. The carpeting throughout the entire house is white, and even when the carpet needs replaced, we will do it in white again.<\/p>\n
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With all of that done, next year, there will be only one more little room to get refreshed, and that will be the downstairs powder room.<\/p>\n
It is just off the kitchen, next to Bob’s reading room. That little room gets used all day long. My office is off the kitchen in the other direction, and it is wood panelling, which I will keep as it is. It is my little hide-a-way, separate from the rest of the house \u2013 a world all it’s own. At the moment, 2 of my cats are seated in the open window looking outside as they do every morning. My feet are cold because it is cold out, and that air is coming into my office. But, it feels good \u2013 I love cold and cooler weather.<\/p>\n
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Yesterday, my computer and house phone were offline most of the day. A technician at the cable company walked me through the process of fixing them over the phone. Now, I hope I can remember how to do this again if I need to. Meanwhile, the men arrived around 9 in the morning to begin installing the Leaf Filter system in the gutters of the house. They cleaned the gutters, sealed them, and installed the system. It’s expensive, and we have many gutters on the house and barn, but my husband is no longer able to be up on the roofs several times a year doing this work. It made sense to me to invest in this now so that he would not be stressing over the falling leaves and the winter weather that brings down branches and dirt to fill the gutters. The men were here nearly all day \u2013 finished up around three. This system is under warranty for 80 years \u2013 and it adds tremendous sales value to a property. The contract is handed down to the new owner when we sell the property, so it goes on for the new owners. It is guaranteed that never in the 80 years will we ever have a clogged gutter. This improvement is an investment for Bob’s safety and increases our home’s value in the future.<\/p>\n
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I’d be so happy if we could spend every day of our life in this comfortable vintage home where we have lived since June 1967.\u00a0\u00a0We raised our five children here. Every year on Christmas day, the family arrives for a day of celebration. Some come and stay for a few days, or at least overnight. It is something we look forward to all year long.<\/p>\n
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As for my writing this week<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nI am working on my revision of my first book Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em> I placed all of the poems \u00a0into my new draft format \u2013 I may add a few more writings as I begin reading the travel journals I created each summer as I taught, Drawing and Writing in Salzburg, for Geneva College courses.\u00a0 This was a travel-study month-long course each year in July. I did these annual courses until my retirement in 2008. Below is a photo I took of our great-granddaughter, Delaunay Yaromey in 2007.I\u00a0\u00a0lived every summer at the Bachmann home at the base of the Untersberg.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nI know I will write a few more poems based on information and descriptions in the journals. I’ve already created some new haiku poems based on that primary source. This is so interesting for me to bee reading the actual WRITINGS \u00a0from those years of travels.<\/p>\n
I will gather \u00a0some of the original Journal entries to put into the new expanded and revised version of the book. I am reading through them now. \u00a0The series of journal entries will set a historical context for the poems and stories. I think these little pieces will add to the collection.<\/p>\n
In January 2003, Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage<\/em><\/span> became my first published book. The revision is a personal goal for me. I’ve wanted to do this update for some years. I changed the title of the book to<\/p>\nSongs for the Pilgrimage.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nThis is the Saturday Stopover, a view from my home at River Road, in The Village of Wurtemburg.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\nSaturday, September 19, 2020.<\/span> <\/em><\/h3>\n <\/p>\n
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I\u2019d love to hear about your week and what you are working on\u00a0 this week in your home or neighborhood.<\/em><\/p>\nI love to hear from my friends and I invite you to contact me or leave a comment.<\/em><\/p>\n*<\/span><\/h1>\nCourtesy of Lynda McKinney Lambert.\u00a0 Copyright September 19, 2020. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n
I invite you to SHARE this POST \u2013 but please honor my copyright and include it when you share.<\/p>\n
I love you for that!<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\nSHARE HAPPINESS!<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n <\/p>\n
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Who IS?\u00a0 Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Did \u00a0you realize this is the last weekend of Summer 2020?<\/p>\n
This weekend \u00a0feels odd, doesn’t it?\u00a0 I am feeling a bit sad inside at the thought of this final few days of the summer season.\u00a0 Each season holds the marks of the seasons \u00a0of our own life span. It is like footprints \u00a0on a sandy beach or like lines on a measuring tape.\u00a0 One by one, year by year, we lay down the marks of our passage.<\/p>\n
![\"Shadows](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PR_ShadowFriends.jpg?ssl=1\")
<\/a>photo by Lynda Lambert:\u00a0 Bob and Me as shadows on the sandy beach in Puerto Rico, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n
Birds are singing outside my window this morning. Sun is bright and I see it shining on the old Norway Maple tree outside my office \u00a0window.\u00a0 That tree is enormous and beginning to show its changes the past couple of years. The tree expert told me about three years ago it has begun dying. Bob and I planted that tree as a sapling Bob dug up from the woods, in 1967, after we bought this house.\u00a0 We dearly love this tree and will care for it for as long as is possible.\u00a0 Taking a tree down is a traumatic thing to do.\u00a0 It’s akin to \u00a0losing a member of the family or a best friend.\u00a0 Even more, it is the loss of a piece of our own body for we understand that in the livingness of nature we see a reflection of who we are as well. Creations of an Almighty God who tenderly tends the garden of our lives.<\/p>\n
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I had a cup of hot\u00a0Red Rose Tea<\/a> with a teaspoon of sugar, and in my favorite mug.\u00a0 I\u2019m wearing my winter pajamas! I’ve enjoyed Red Rose Tea for as long as I can remember.\u00a0 It has a taste that is just right, for me.\u00a0 I am so accustomed to the flavor of Red Rose Tea that I can barely drink any other tea.\u00a0 That is how it is with our lives – we find something we like a lot and it becomes a part of us. Red Rose Tea is a part of who I am after all these years.<\/p>\n As for coffee, most mornings I have a cup of\u00a0Caribou Mild Roast Coffee<\/a> and I drink it from a favorite cup that was hand crafted in a Pennsylvania \u00a0potter’s studio. I have such mugs made by three different Pennsylvania potters.\u00a0 There is something so special about using hand-made mugs and pottery pieces that nothing on the commercial market can compare.<\/p>\n Coffee Cup with Caribou Mild Roast Coffee. Cup hand made at mudmonkey studio in PA.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It is a feeling of the person’s hands that remain in the finished piece of pottery. It’s personal. It’s sensual. It is that human touch that nothing made in a factory could duplicate. It is as though the hand crafted pottery holds the potters life inside of it\u00a0 and you touch that person each time you pick up that cup or bowl.\u00a0 You can see more of this pottery by visiting Mud Monkey Pottery – Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This morning, I wrote to a friend to let her know I enjoyed her excellent message sent via e-mail. It was the first one of the day for me. Her \u00a0reflections are tender and sweet. I loved being with her as I read her message.\u00a0 She spoke about her dog and her life and the comforts of this cool morning as she prepared a cup of hot coffee and talked about getting out her flannel shirt. You can visit her, too, by going to Campbell’s World Blog by Patty Fletcher<\/a><\/p>\n I thought how our pets and how precious they are \u00a0to us. We could never put a value on them, for they are priceless treasures. I tell my cats and dogs how much I love them, and I tell them I am thankful for this time we are together. I thank them for coming into my life and for being so faithful and loving to me. I try to never take them for granted but to stop and think of the gift they are to us every day that we have them with us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The past month has been a time of change and improvements inside and outside of our home. The kitchen project kept us occupied right now. I call it refreshment and not a remodel., We do not take away anything from the vintage aspects of our century home. We do not tear out anything and put in modern stuff \u2013 we refresh and restore, we do not destroy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our home is important to us, and we love it. We want it to be comfortable and a beautiful place that makes us smile when we walk in the door. We want anyone who enters our home to feel comfortable and surrounded by beauty \u2013 we want it to be a happy place for anyone who steps in our doors. We began having the entire house done in Puerto Rico color combinations a couple of years before Bob was in the hospital in 2014. Earlier, we had our upstairs bathroom done this way after our daughter,<\/p>\n Heidi McClure\u00a0 Owner of Sassafrass Hill Studio <\/a><\/p>\n and her husband, Jerry, worked on the walls and ceiling \u00a0to fix the plaster.\u00a0 They \u00a0fixed \u00a0it and it was as nice as a \u00a0new room. Bob painted it in Puerto Rico colors. \u00a0I continued with the updates in painting by having three rooms done while Bob \u00a0was away so much that year. \u00a0He was battling acute myeloid leukemia and had a stem cell transplant in October 2014. That year, we had two bedrooms painted upstairs and his reading room on the first floor was done for him, too. He enjoys it every day since he is an avid reader.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We are doing the remaining rooms now.<\/p>\n Our Kitchen<\/p>\n Photo_Vintage Hazel Atlas display in vintage cupboard, with our dog Mitchell in the foreground.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n For the past month, the kitchen is under attack \u2013 the painters\u00a0 from \u00a0Allwine Painting <\/a>were here for a week every day \u2013 prepping and painting. Now we can finish up with the new floor and backsplash. We went shopping on Wednesday for those items \u2013 my brother and sister-in-law took us and helped us find what we had in mind.<\/p>\n Kitchen cupboards painted.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n On Wednesday, we went to Home Depot and bought the tile that will be our kitchen floor. We ordered the glass tile that will be our backsplash. The one we picked out is not in stock. We won’t get delivery on it\u00a0till October 14<\/strong>. This glass tile is called ABALONE<\/a> because the glass tiles looks similar to abalone shells\u00a0 that have a reflective quality known as Labradorescence. or AKA, Chatoyancy.<\/p>\n Can you imagine that on the backsplash between the white upper cupboards and the turquoise lower ones?<\/p>\n I wanted something that would be a powerful connection between the two areas. This brings in our love of nature, too. My brother found this for us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our new floor will also reflect our love of nature.<\/p>\n tile for the floor is in large slabs. The floor will look and feel like walking on a shady stone pathway. It will give the kitchen a feeling of something beautiful outside \u2013 stones and rocky ledges.\u00a0 We are crazy for stones of all kinds. We have bowls of stones throughout the house. They bring in good energy, by the way.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Of course, we are now looking at the living and dining rooms.<\/p>\n We are thinking about how we can refresh them later in the year or during the winter months.<\/p>\n The color on the walls is much too soft, a peach color.<\/p>\n Pastel colors have white paint added to the primary color. This mixture makes the colors chalky. That is what makes them pastel. I’m not too fond of pastel colors. We are looking at colors now and are considering something in the red family \u2013 I have two couches in the living room \u2013 one is yellow, one is white. The carpeting throughout the entire house is white, and even when the carpet needs replaced, we will do it in white again.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With all of that done, next year, there will be only one more little room to get refreshed, and that will be the downstairs powder room.<\/p>\n It is just off the kitchen, next to Bob’s reading room. That little room gets used all day long. My office is off the kitchen in the other direction, and it is wood panelling, which I will keep as it is. It is my little hide-a-way, separate from the rest of the house \u2013 a world all it’s own. At the moment, 2 of my cats are seated in the open window looking outside as they do every morning. My feet are cold because it is cold out, and that air is coming into my office. But, it feels good \u2013 I love cold and cooler weather.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yesterday, my computer and house phone were offline most of the day. A technician at the cable company walked me through the process of fixing them over the phone. Now, I hope I can remember how to do this again if I need to. Meanwhile, the men arrived around 9 in the morning to begin installing the Leaf Filter system in the gutters of the house. They cleaned the gutters, sealed them, and installed the system. It’s expensive, and we have many gutters on the house and barn, but my husband is no longer able to be up on the roofs several times a year doing this work. It made sense to me to invest in this now so that he would not be stressing over the falling leaves and the winter weather that brings down branches and dirt to fill the gutters. The men were here nearly all day \u2013 finished up around three. This system is under warranty for 80 years \u2013 and it adds tremendous sales value to a property. The contract is handed down to the new owner when we sell the property, so it goes on for the new owners. It is guaranteed that never in the 80 years will we ever have a clogged gutter. This improvement is an investment for Bob’s safety and increases our home’s value in the future.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’d be so happy if we could spend every day of our life in this comfortable vintage home where we have lived since June 1967.\u00a0\u00a0We raised our five children here. Every year on Christmas day, the family arrives for a day of celebration. Some come and stay for a few days, or at least overnight. It is something we look forward to all year long.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am working on my revision of my first book Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em> I placed all of the poems \u00a0into my new draft format \u2013 I may add a few more writings as I begin reading the travel journals I created each summer as I taught, Drawing and Writing in Salzburg, for Geneva College courses.\u00a0 This was a travel-study month-long course each year in July. I did these annual courses until my retirement in 2008. Below is a photo I took of our great-granddaughter, Delaunay Yaromey in 2007.I\u00a0\u00a0lived every summer at the Bachmann home at the base of the Untersberg.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I know I will write a few more poems based on information and descriptions in the journals. I’ve already created some new haiku poems based on that primary source. This is so interesting for me to bee reading the actual WRITINGS \u00a0from those years of travels.<\/p>\n I will gather \u00a0some of the original Journal entries to put into the new expanded and revised version of the book. I am reading through them now. \u00a0The series of journal entries will set a historical context for the poems and stories. I think these little pieces will add to the collection.<\/p>\n In January 2003, Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage<\/em><\/span> became my first published book. The revision is a personal goal for me. I’ve wanted to do this update for some years. I changed the title of the book to<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n –<\/p>\n I\u2019d love to hear about your week and what you are working on\u00a0 this week in your home or neighborhood.<\/em><\/p>\n I love to hear from my friends and I invite you to contact me or leave a comment.<\/em><\/p>\n Courtesy of Lynda McKinney Lambert.\u00a0 Copyright September 19, 2020. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n I invite you to SHARE this POST \u2013 but please honor my copyright and include it when you share.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Who IS?\u00a0 Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/a><\/a><\/a>As for my writing this week<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nSongs for the Pilgrimage.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
This is the Saturday Stopover, a view from my home at River Road, in The Village of Wurtemburg.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
Saturday, September 19, 2020.<\/span> <\/em><\/h3>\n
*<\/span><\/h1>\n
I love you for that!<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n
SHARE HAPPINESS!<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n