Earl Grey Day...

It is one of those days...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5RPEa27zO7qL6428iZKmjZxinYHbTJl2qXCcScAYQjG9_3Uu8GR9hVbK-W7VOwp74joSUmdalGfdQVaV3bQkKi45pSEWA0wVXtnM2G9JonMylpsOwV48MF71CZ8vkFS-ThaL86uE6cFo/s1600/englandtea1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5RPEa27zO7qL6428iZKmjZxinYHbTJl2qXCcScAYQjG9_3Uu8GR9hVbK-W7VOwp74joSUmdalGfdQVaV3bQkKi45pSEWA0wVXtnM2G9JonMylpsOwV48MF71CZ8vkFS-ThaL86uE6cFo/s1600/englandtea1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />Gloomy, rainy, foggy. My favorite kind of day:-)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPrR6dbgXXx_mtj7TIPFBtOlnXfJV_VkNvxQRluZsF7qAG3YO9jOG9IQ-byvArjkMECCXAKqB5fEGSRCgKhuqQeEsp_-2_llP3MB28_-LHnjiP02nwErVH-0OnrtjvavlGWYB_CbDVzOw/s1600/englandtea4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPrR6dbgXXx_mtj7TIPFBtOlnXfJV_VkNvxQRluZsF7qAG3YO9jOG9IQ-byvArjkMECCXAKqB5fEGSRCgKhuqQeEsp_-2_llP3MB28_-LHnjiP02nwErVH-0OnrtjvavlGWYB_CbDVzOw/s1600/englandtea4.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The perfect day for a steaming cup of Earl Grey and my grandfather's book of Shakespeare. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzJkvQUbzIJjkVxttnSCoqoDr_7t0GgbW71S78al05Cw41qf8pA2RQLXt_V1fLh6BsOu3s1xzOk0nnxlk7jsmuqpNsPzmQ4NY9b_5zqeV8MGbxTgNjC8H7dBkNcR9Auw6eb5VjeUNpVj0/s1600/Englandtea3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzJkvQUbzIJjkVxttnSCoqoDr_7t0GgbW71S78al05Cw41qf8pA2RQLXt_V1fLh6BsOu3s1xzOk0nnxlk7jsmuqpNsPzmQ4NY9b_5zqeV8MGbxTgNjC8H7dBkNcR9Auw6eb5VjeUNpVj0/s1600/Englandtea3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It reminds me so much of England. I would be perfectly happy there living in an old, dark, castle. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPaOie8Ri74cvzl8QZEmwpfI8ymH63mrRx9ctl2RpZufNoDYt00ydOqyK44_agP-Vfics75HrFtZWAVQstNZ8uKiEe7W8PyM7Z7BOXkOp8IVFu8u2IPvuYlHO82d_rWHhU0UHGx_lIh8o/s1600/Bodiam-Castle-Interior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPaOie8Ri74cvzl8QZEmwpfI8ymH63mrRx9ctl2RpZufNoDYt00ydOqyK44_agP-Vfics75HrFtZWAVQstNZ8uKiEe7W8PyM7Z7BOXkOp8IVFu8u2IPvuYlHO82d_rWHhU0UHGx_lIh8o/s640/Bodiam-Castle-Interior.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Really. There is just something about them that I love. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtFETALynOMSCIlyRYlPbSUoImHTYwTi0WBa35f_u_-B4lvHgTl6CAYVh7PAOuHymP0rb6oidm1f7tK-0cfrmxiCEs7FnTI_3ScJEufcMH3SwIsq3eScWoMBmiz5U0eBo-GhcXd_7B2nY/s1600/v0_master.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtFETALynOMSCIlyRYlPbSUoImHTYwTi0WBa35f_u_-B4lvHgTl6CAYVh7PAOuHymP0rb6oidm1f7tK-0cfrmxiCEs7FnTI_3ScJEufcMH3SwIsq3eScWoMBmiz5U0eBo-GhcXd_7B2nY/s640/v0_master.jpg" width="586" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am a "Knight" after all, so my ancestry reaches back to Merrie Olde England through my grandfather, George Knight. Such a gentleman, he was a teacher, well-read and so kind. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGw5J3p3P35w834HYnCKcLMN0nG_m4p8fr7sREUTU0hqVxeo6drjqffAW33zlO0vcd7ijTvn8fsnuYoH0yFzF44n-0sPQ0zKF3KjIco4fzzTluXM4rlqKYXshzQNYTwOyeufw9-y9EIyE/s1600/GeorgeKnight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGw5J3p3P35w834HYnCKcLMN0nG_m4p8fr7sREUTU0hqVxeo6drjqffAW33zlO0vcd7ijTvn8fsnuYoH0yFzF44n-0sPQ0zKF3KjIco4fzzTluXM4rlqKYXshzQNYTwOyeufw9-y9EIyE/s1600/GeorgeKnight.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These days I enjoy reflecting and imagining him being here on the land we now live. Thankful I can pass that heritage on to my own children. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2t4KXZuPNuGLgr2HV3v3jroaop8qomJMwEDCramaWnc7dFGHik8HKIBJoxEQHjAO6bk_qpQ5wfmw_M0SUgBal53lfPWnqEmWPoWS1vNWCAGrr2SWyXKDcqDgX6wwP1-OXhoMnUeCNcHU/s1600/Englandtea2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2t4KXZuPNuGLgr2HV3v3jroaop8qomJMwEDCramaWnc7dFGHik8HKIBJoxEQHjAO6bk_qpQ5wfmw_M0SUgBal53lfPWnqEmWPoWS1vNWCAGrr2SWyXKDcqDgX6wwP1-OXhoMnUeCNcHU/s1600/Englandtea2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now to enjoy his book of Shakespeare's Complete Works, given to him in 1911...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">SONNET 55</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not marble, nor the gilded monuments </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But you shall shine more bright in these contents </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Than unswept stone besmear'd with time. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When wasteful war shall statues overturn, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And broils root out the work of masonry, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The living record of your memory. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Even in the eyes of all posterity </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That wear this world out to the ending doom.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, till the judgment that yourself arise, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-<i>-William Shakespeare</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'll be joining Cielo at <a href="http://houseinroses.blogspot.com/2012/02/show-off-your-cottage-monday.html">Show off your cottage Monday</a> so drop by there!</div>

Earl Grey Day...

It is one of those days... Gloomy, rainy, foggy. My favorite kind of day:-) The perfect day for a steaming cup of Earl Grey and my grandfath...

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