Out From Under

It's done! I've finished my edition of four Ben Jonson masques and it's printed and sitting on my desk. Five years of work in a 325-page lump, there it is.

No deadlines for a couple of months so my sabbatical is beginning right on schedule. Our colleagues back at CMU are deep in prep week, and we feel so SO sorry for them, as we sit back with our cups of tea and gaze at Castle Drogo from our patio.

So here are a few catch-up photos of Robin with his cousins at Tintagel, and some shots taken by my CMU student, Korinne, who visited us at the first of the month, at Merryvale, a Stone-Age megalith site. Robin likes to play "bus" on the big granite slabs lying around the old stone row there.

Fun with Castles

I'm a bit behind in adding entries because I'm in the home stretch with the book I'm editing -- another week should see me ready to submit it to my editor. But here are a few pics from a recent field trip. As soon as my brother sends me the pix from the McDermott family's visit with us last week, I'll post those!

Ari and Robin made a visit to Castle Berry Pomeroy, a ruin near the coast. It's said to be haunted -- there was one room that Robin wouldn't go into! But he loved the rest of it, and keeps asking to go back.

Next entry -- Tintagel, Saltram House, Buckland Abbey, and Dartmouth with the McDermott cousins.