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August 27
I read a lot of British fiction when I was growing up, and fell in love with those town names. You know the names I mean – towns like Bishop’s Cleeve or Tenburywells or Sandford St. Martin.
So you can imagine my delight when, on my only visit to England, I found myself in the town of Lower Slaughter (between Bourton-on-the-Water and Stow-on-the-Wold).
Bench detail
Parish Church of St. Mary
Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire
United Kingdom
photographed 10.2007
July 27
At the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, over 3,200 Americans are buried and another 5,100 names are inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing. The majority died during World War II’s Battle of the Atlantic or in the strategic air bombardment of northwest Europe.
Is it any wonder, then, that there are so many crosses they blur together….
near Cambridge, England
photographed 10.2007


