Twinned gates with lamp posts in Bath, England. There is nothing so magically Narnian as a lamp post; and I miss them dreadfully. In Rye (East Sussex) there are fifteen foot lamp posts EVERYWHERE. Everywhere! I can’t hardly stand being away from England. (image Hopeisland on flickr)
“If you will thank me,” he replied, “let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you.”
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
cottage or haunted house?
“Yet if he should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King; for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
Declaration of Arbroath, 1320
Lysefjord, Norway (by Torehegg)
A beautiful Sumerian seal.
“The look on the ostrich’s face is priceless.”
(via centuriespast)
My spirit animals…
More of my heroes.
(Source: headlikeanorange, via seanchaidh101)
Some serious Sunday bibilophile porn
My travel wishlist just exploded looking through this gallery of some of the most beautiful libraries in the world. (Also - Hogwarts fantasies much? Yep, the last picture here, the Trinity College Library was the one used in the Harry Potter movies as the Hogwards library.)
(via bookporn)
fairytale-europe: York, England
enchantedengland: “In York every corner is shining” -Anonymous
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Black wolves do not occur naturally. A 2008 study at Stanford University found that the mutation responsible for black fur occurs only in dogs, so black wolves are the result of gray wolves breeding back with domestic canines. The mutation is a dominant trait, like dark hair in humans, and is passed down to the majority of offspring. It is not entirely clear what benefit black fur has for the animals; they do not seem to be more successful hunters, but do show a marked improvement in immunity to certain infections.
(Source: doublejawed, via seanchaidh101)
(via bookporn)
(Source: serenadeofanclecticloversmirage, via littlebibliophile)
Obsidian Balustrades - Jordaan, Amsterdam
Amsterdam Canal
Manarola fisherman village in a dramatic windy weather. Manarola is one of five famous colorful villages of Cinque Terre (National park) in Italy, suspended between sea and land on sheer cliffs upon the wild waves.
