Saturday 24 April 2010

Dead Men Tell No Tales by E.W. Hornung

The facade, indeed, was wholly grim, with a castellated tower at one end, and a number of narrow, sunken windows looking askance on the wreck and ruin of a once prim, old-fashioned, high-walled garden.

Alnwick Castle, Northumberland








































Wednesday 7 April 2010

Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by S.H. Hammond

Beyond still, are mountain ranges, whose castellated peaks stand out
in sharp and bold relief, on whose tops the beams of the descending
sun lie like a mantle of silver and gold.

The Ardeche, France