> From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Rick Womer > > A front view of Fountains Abbey, near Ripon, UK: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16519777&size=lg > > The place is vast, and extremely impressive (that's a family with a > stroller in the lower left corner). > > > It was built in 1132-1147, and was a monastery until Henry VIII > dissolved them in 1539. Besides the batterings of nature, various > owners sold off or used the stone as building material to reduce the > place to ruins. >
Very nice. My parents were very fond of Fountains Abbey and went there quite often - they lived nearby. They're there forever now. It's quite a comedy to carry a hidden urn into a place like that and to scatter ashes surreptitiously under the eagle eyes of the wardens. If anyone is thinking of doing such a thing, don't scatter any on the still waters of an ornamental pond. They don't sink, and the ducks and swans are more used to people scattering bread for them. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
