Category: Reference Points
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“Time and tide wait for no man… “
I thought the snippet of Chaucer’s line was appropriate for this particular discussion of men’s accoutrements… Time marches on, and the world, and everything in it, changes. The featured image of this short post is a shot of a beautiful gold wristwatch given to me as a Christmas gift (our final Christmas together before her…
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Remembering Isabella
Sometimes inanimate objects aren’t necessarily inanimate. The photo above is of a carved statue of an English Bulldog. It was carved many years ago from a certain Balinese wood (its species escapes memory), and purchased by my better half, Dee Dee, and placed on our staircase in effigy of her little English Bulldog, Isabella. Isabella…
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Greetings and Salutations
Greetings and salutations. Welcome to the very first of my contributions to A Man for Some Seasons. Readers of, and subscribers to my other site, The Renaissance Garden Guy, may know me for generating copious amounts of content – both written and photographic – in each published feature. This will not be the case with…