Mary and I are getting ready to go in. |
I'm standing on the drawbridge. |
A little church on the way in. |
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Congratulations to Martha Reed. Her short story, "The Honor Thief" was chosen for the 2021 Bouchercon Anthology, This Time For Sure. Hank Phillippi Ryan will edit the volume, which will be released in August at the time of the convention.
Margaret S. Hamilton's short story, "Killer Weeds," appears in the January 20 edition of Texas Gardener's Seeds: From Our Garden to Yours. Congratulations, Margaret, who, if you follow Facebook know, is a superb gardener herself!
Congratulations to Jennifer J. Chow for garnering a 2021 Lefty Nomination for Best Humorous Mystery Novel. We're crossing our fingers for Jennifer!
Congratulations to Paula Gail Benson whose "Reputation or Soul" has been chosen for Malice Domestic 16: Mystery Most Diabolical anthology to be released this spring.
KM Rockwood's "Stay Safe--Very Safe" appears in this year's 2020 BOULD anthology. Congratulations, KM!
Margaret S. Hamilton's "Dealing at the Dump" appears in Cozy Villages of Death Fall 2020.
Margaret S. Hamilton's "Black Market Baby" and Debra H. Goldstein's "Forensic Magic" appear in Masthead: Best New England Crime Stories Fall 2020.
Jennifer J. Chow's Mimi Lee Reads Between the Lines (interview on WWK on 11/11) released on November 10.
Annette Dashofy signed with agent Dawn Dowdle of the Blue Ridge Literary Agency. Congratulations, Annette!
KM Rockwood's "Secrets To The Grave" has been published in the SinC Chesapeake Chapter's new anthology Invitation To Murder, released by Wildside Press on 10/6.
Susan Van Kirk's Three May Keep A Secret has been republished by Harlequin's Worldwide Mystery. The WWK interview about the book can be accessed here. We're so glad another publisher picked up this series.
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Mary and I are getting ready to go in. |
I'm standing on the drawbridge. |
A little church on the way in. |
11 comments:
Gloria -- Sounds like a fun place to visit. One of my favorite places to go to when I am in New York City is the Cloisters, located in Fort Tryon Park. It's part of the Metropolitan Museum. While it is not a copy of any particular medieval cloister, it contains elements from many.
~ Jim
Gloria, what a unique place to visit in the Napa Valley! Jim's right, the Cloisters in NYC get an A+, especially the gardens.
My favorite is Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, England, which dates from the eleventh century. Instead of a moot, the castle owners flooded the nearby marsh to create a natural moot to protect it.
What a lovely place to visit... one question: Did they have a library? My favorite picture is you standing by that giant cask. LOL Laura
What a fabulous place! It's now on my bucket list.
I loved visiting the Mont Sainte Michel in Normandy, France. It is surrounded by tidal lands, so when the tide goes in, the castle/town/monastery becomes an island. You have to make sure you move your car from the parking lot before then, or the car will get flooded! We were there after dark, and you really get the feeling of being back in time.
Jim, thank you for mentioning the Cloisters - I haven't been in years. Time to go back.
Such wonderful pictures! It sounds like you had a great time, and is definitely someplace to put on my list of places to see.
Jim, I've only been to New York City once and didn't see the cloisters. I'll have to go there again so I can see them.
Margaret, I don't think I saw the Berkeley Castle when I was in England twice.
Laura, it was a big cask, and that was only one of many I don't know if they had a library or not. It wasn't mentioned and it would have taken us hours and hours to cover the whole castle.
Shari, I know you'll love it. Although I've traveled overseas five or six times, I have yet to go to France. I'll keep that place in mind for when I do go there some year.
The Hearst Castle in California was impressive.
Thank you, Kathleen. Most of them were taken by my daughter although a pair of twin sisters took the one of Mary and I together with her camera. The pictures I posted where only a small percentage of the pictures I have. Napa Valley even without the castle is a beautiful place to visit.
Sounded like an interesting place to spend a lovely afternoon.
The Cloisters, absolutely, but as a kid we wandered around Lambert Castle in the Garret Mountains. I remember it as being fairly unrestored at the time, but that could have been because I was a kid and I perceived it as old. I know there was no admission and most of the rooms were unfurnished. Of course there's Viscaya in Miami, and a multitude of castles in Europe whose names have long since fallen out of my brain. One place I've always wanted to go, nope, make that two - any castle in Transylvania and San Simeon.
Fun article, Gloria.
Grace it was. If you ever get to California just north of San Francisco, you'll have to visit it.
Kait, I'm not sure where the Garret Mountains are, and I've never been as far south in Florida as Miami. I don't remember the names of all the castles I've seen in England, Scotland and Wales, either. I remember someone on our bus tour calling it ABC - Another bloody
Castle.
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