Yosemite National Park

I am away west on holiday. this week, I shall scale Half Dome then convalesce at one of many seaside resorts named for a Spanish saint.

Monument to a Dappled Age

Benchmarks Preceeding One's Imminent Demise, Part II

today, my dear uncle Greggory DeForrest Caddingham celebrates the day of his birth.

his son, my cousin, Nichol Caddingham anxiously awaits the day when he is the preeminent Mr. Caddingham; he shall own Lake Park.

then, like his father, Nichol Caddingham's duties will primarily involve the maintenance of the estate's many fountains and the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to a man deeply "engaged in his employment" who plays billiards decently and knows the value of a cigar.

The Caddingham Estate at Arkansington

stone fence set forth by the Saxons, Visigoths or some other such ancient peoples.

Shannon Meadow. a beautiful, if fractious, feature of our property.

"...the country folks, if you asked them, would swear on their Bible that he walks. there are those who speak to having met him near the church, and on the moor, and even within this house--idle tales, you'll say, and so say I. yet that old man by the kitchen fire affirms he has seen two on 'em, looking out of his chamber window, on every rainy night since his death..."