tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post8285544177762423558..comments2023-05-02T12:33:58.182+01:00Comments on Perpetually In Transit: I will lift up mine eyes unto the hillsPerpetuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-34516853411186651322012-02-02T23:00:49.074+00:002012-02-02T23:00:49.074+00:00So glad you enjoyed it, Debra. Yes, Britain is ver...So glad you enjoyed it, Debra. Yes, Britain is very beautiful and considering how very small it is, compared to the vastness of the US, it manages to have a lot of wide-open spaces. The emptiest part of all is the Highlands of Scotland, which is why we love them so much. But you're right - we have to get used to open spaces if we've grown up without them.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-2054185302464052722012-02-02T22:29:01.744+00:002012-02-02T22:29:01.744+00:00Oh Perpetua! The landscape, the beauty! I am so gl...Oh Perpetua! The landscape, the beauty! I am so glad you shared this link with me and I'm going to back and read all the associated posts. My great-grandparents were Welsh and my grandmother born and raised in Scotland...all to say, I think it is in my DNA to fully appreciate. I'm just chuckling at how different our landscapes are, but isn't it fun to be able to share! I also wonder sometimes if I would do as well as I think I would with so much open space. I yearn for it, yet have NEVER lived with it, so maybe I'd be anxious! Ha! DebraDebrahttp://www.breathelighter.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-12693506860134799822011-04-20T08:12:05.119+01:002011-04-20T08:12:05.119+01:00Thanks, Dancing Beastie. I had to learn Psalm 121 ...Thanks, Dancing Beastie. I had to learn Psalm 121 off by heart at my church primary school and it's there for ever. How lovely to have your own setting of it!<br /><br />You were very lucky to be able to see a hill from your window in Oxford. None visble at LMH to my knowledge, but we did have wonderful gardens and I could see a magnificent copper beech from my window.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-45755565426184956062011-04-19T23:47:00.568+01:002011-04-19T23:47:00.568+01:00A lovely post. I, too, need hills and have always ...A lovely post. I, too, need hills and have always loved Psalm 121 in the AV. My brother-in-law, a composer, wrote a beautiful version of it for our wedding day. <br /><br />I remember my first week at Oxford, feeling very unsettled and uprooted until, one evening, I realised that I could just spot a small green hill in the distance from the window of my new room. After that I knew everything would be fine! But I still needed to get back to the proper hills of the West Highlands every summer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-8799682449730970282011-03-13T18:59:04.438+00:002011-03-13T18:59:04.438+00:00Thanks, Sue. Interesting that it's the childho...Thanks, Sue. Interesting that it's the childhood learning of the Authorised Version which sticks with us lifelong for some verses.<br /><br />Trying to put into words what is virtually inexpressible is a challenge, which is where photos are so helpful. We can look and wonder and leave words behind for a while.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-744448887632785812011-03-13T17:13:24.503+00:002011-03-13T17:13:24.503+00:00Beautiful photos.
I also love that verse "I ...Beautiful photos.<br /> I also love that verse "I shall lift up mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my strength. My strength is in the Lord" and remember hearing it read in church right back in childhood. I am glad that I live in a semi rural area with some beautiful countryside around. I still love to walk and think the beauty of nature does speak to something very personal that can't quite be put into words.Suemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03128736092253293640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-77485887759018113902011-03-02T16:27:24.809+00:002011-03-02T16:27:24.809+00:00Thanks, PolkaDot, glad you like them. I think view...Thanks, PolkaDot, glad you like them. I think views are often like music in the way they can instantly and effortlessly conjure up memories of the past.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-7661689891074038152011-03-02T15:52:26.512+00:002011-03-02T15:52:26.512+00:00I love the photos. Looking out on to my tiny urban...I love the photos. Looking out on to my tiny urban garden I can at this time of the year look through the leafless branches of a nearby tree and glimpse the edge of the Cotswold Escarpment. Go up there and I can see views over the Severn Valley that remind me of our views down the valley to the coast from our childhood homePolkaDothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753780150155246671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-60759009025391491952011-03-01T22:18:52.231+00:002011-03-01T22:18:52.231+00:00Perhaps I'm a changeling :-) Living partly by ...Perhaps I'm a changeling :-) Living partly by the sea sounds wonderful - another roving retirement in the family?Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-9545650080515720982011-03-01T18:33:48.903+00:002011-03-01T18:33:48.903+00:00Funny how our childhood has left you with a pencha...Funny how our childhood has left you with a penchant for solitude within vast spaces and archingb skies, when you have younger sisters who either won't leave the city or (me) so far likes nothing better or more than being on the perimeter of a small market town.<br /><br />But I want to have a good go at spending at least part of our lives by the sea when we retire. I'll report back which I really like the best when we've had chance to test the teory full...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13702475308562601190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-27067554947136131282011-03-01T11:10:50.631+00:002011-03-01T11:10:50.631+00:00Ayak, the view from your house is to die for. Abso...Ayak, the view from your house is to die for. Absolutely wonderful! I can see why you love it so much.<br /><br />Rosie, I think a lot of people would agree with you. The scenery you love is on a more human scale, welcoming rather than awe-inspiring, like that of Oxfordshire. I guess I grew up with high, wide, empty spaces all around me and the love of them is in my blood.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-81461657480308689552011-03-01T09:33:23.552+00:002011-03-01T09:33:23.552+00:00sorry yellow stone housessorry yellow stone housesRosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01944155516559194389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-41996317568794979732011-03-01T09:32:43.302+00:002011-03-01T09:32:43.302+00:00Lovely pictures. The moors and empty hills are too...Lovely pictures. The moors and empty hills are too bleak for me. As we drove south through France it was the hills/valleys/yellow south of Perigeux that did it for me and I still find it breathtakingly beautiful often.Rosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01944155516559194389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-48090912993575549192011-03-01T05:27:36.699+00:002011-03-01T05:27:36.699+00:00Lovely photos!
I have always been drawn to hills,...Lovely photos!<br /><br />I have always been drawn to hills, mountains and wide open spaces which I guess is why I love Turkey so much. When we moved to our current home almost two years ago I had spent 6 weeks in England for the birth of my first grandson and Mr A had moved all our stuff here ready for my return. I hadn't even seen the house, but when I arrived I took one look at the view and knew that even if I had to live in a tent, to wake up to this every morning, it would be worth it.Ayakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16903896106779269050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-59824598846609708672011-02-28T21:26:18.481+00:002011-02-28T21:26:18.481+00:00It was a titanic struggle, but I got there in the ...It was a titanic struggle, but I got there in the end, Fly :-) There'll be no holding me now....Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-91960564814656777212011-02-28T21:18:04.535+00:002011-02-28T21:18:04.535+00:00I see you've beaten Blogger into submission an...I see you've beaten Blogger into submission and posted photographs...lovely!the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.com