Thus |
And thus; and follows a selection... |
Change of pace; Celtic? |
Stern |
Close friends |
Wagging tongue |
Hmmm... |
Ever more |
Another hmmm... |
More wagging |
...recounts the retirement travels of Mark and Vicki Sherouse since 2008...in Asia and the Pacific, New Zealand, Europe, South America, and Africa, as well as the US and Canada. Our website, with much practical information, is: https://sites.google.com/site/theroadgoeseveron/.Contact us at mark.sherouse@gmail.com or vsherouse@gmail.com.
Thus |
And thus; and follows a selection... |
Change of pace; Celtic? |
Stern |
Close friends |
Wagging tongue |
Hmmm... |
Ever more |
Another hmmm... |
More wagging |
Consecrated in the 12th century, with an add-on that pretty much matched |
Everything Romanesque here, except the arch that divides the original building from the add-on |
Nicely carved, more in the choir |
The add-on; still very Romanesque |
The capitals were nicely sculpted, especially for this size church |
Then things started getting silly |
Thus |
And thus |
But then serious again over the side doors |
Ditto |
But then more weird stuff |
Ditto; so I am wondering if these are some sort of 12th century speech balloons... |
Sr. Nicholas from the west; really big, really old |
The south side fronts the street |
A look at the apse |
Despite our disappointment, our eyes gazed heaven-ward, and we were rewarded with this, and then a whole large Romanesque building's worth of what I have come to call "Norman funnies" |
More...all the way around... |
Thus |
And thus |
Religious art scholars dismiss these things as "clumsy" |
We'll never understand what they are about, but they are all over the 11th and 12th century Norman world...England, Normandy, SW France, Sicily... |
And thus |
St. Nicholas of the Mysteries, from the southeast |