Enga mellom fjella

When 10 pm is tomorrow and 5 am yesterday.

The time differences... the internet really makes one aware of time. 10 pm here is tomorrow. 4 am in Manchester was still yesterday. WDC Time is EST or EDT.

ME:

Living in Montana Time Zone can be somewhat confusing. Some sites are on GMT and others EST or PST or whatever. It's never on MST. At least Costa Rica is in the same time zone as Montana for the "summer" (most of their winter).

I reviewed two magazines and think I have a bit of a grip on what to submit. That would be by Friday...

I wrote 4 pieces today in a small white unlined notebook made of scrap paper. I bought it in Costa Rica last visit. I'll need to enter the "poems" on-line at my other blog and then link here. I will use those for Thursday writer's group or at tomorrow's writer group. One or the other or both.

Wrote a lot in my journal too. It's a friend's birthday.

Worked on moving photos around at facebook. Now I need to choose 3 very-good photos of stone and about 10-15 others that tell a story. I already know:

1. Shelter (homes, caves and barns)
2. Worship (Arbor Low, churches)
3. Places of power (Cathedrals, abbeys, castles)
4. Transportation (roads, bridges)
5. Commentary on death (barrows, gravestones, coffins)
6. Commentary on society in general (statuary, engravings)
7. Whimsy (the Imp, fountains)
8. Art (designs of all sorts)
9. Food and water (troughs, cups, bowls, wells, cellars, tables, serving boards)
10. Landmarks (natural outcroppings, crosses)

I know there are different types of stone (gritstone, limestone, blue john, black marble) and mud for wattle and daub and clay for brick.

I know stone has defined certain areas since Neolithic times; was used extensively by the Romans, was used and reused by the Saxons and later Normans through the Medieval period, the Tudors, Elizabethan, Georgian and Victorian eras.

I know it formed walls for canals and locks, for water-overflows and dams.

In the caves lead was mined (not to forget coal) and refuge sought.

I know that stone endures. As England endures ...in ways Americans find hard to understand.

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