Rob Ralley

Manuscript image showing part of a paragraph that reads: 'wheather Mr John Monson hayre to Sir Th shall live long & prosp[er] & attayne to honour & good & a happy mariage', then, added later in a darker ink (but not shown in the image): 'he shall'. (NOTE6839 in the online edition.)

1620: seeking predictions from an angel, Richard Napier asks whether one of his clients will 'live long & prosp[er]' #earlymodern 🖖

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The curved corner and doorway of a yellow-brick building with 'SEXTRY HOUSE' written above the door; it is a bright day but a dark shadow of a building with a large chimney is partly darkening the front. The sky is bright and blue.

Sextry House, Ely.
#BlueskyMonday 📷 #photography

Beautiful. The light is magical.

A tarmac path between hedges. It is a bright autumn day, with a blue sky behind a thin veil of wispy cloud; most of the left hedge is greenish yellow or bare; most of the right hedge is orange-brown. Trees growing out of each hedge are bare-branched. The path runs a short way forward then heads off right.

Ely path.
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Thank you! And to you. It's a busy weekend, somehow, but not a bad one for all that. Hope you're well!

Thank you! 😊 And: interesting. I roughly know what happened but not really the scene/landscape there.

Interesting! I'm pleased it had the effect.

Thank you! 😊

A patch of slightly hilly grass at dusk, with grasses flowering in the foreground and silhouetted trees either side and ahead. The sun is about to set but is shining strongly around the edges of clouds.

Last rays of summer sun.
#bright #BlueskyArtShow

I think these ones were planted that way, though why I don't know - it's originally fenland here, so years (centuries) ago would have been watery marsh and reeds. In some places nearby restoration has actually meant taking trees out...

Thank you! 😊

Thank you! 😊

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Thank you!

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Beautifully done. I love this.

Thank you! 😊 Taking a rare opportunity yesterday actually to look at the fens landscape rather than just hurtling through it...

A view across a flat landscape on a clear day, with a single, short row of tall trees far off at the horizon against a background of low-level fluffy clouds.

Fenland treeline.
#scape #ClassicMono 📷 #photography

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A tarmac path in a park turns a corner past a tree and a bin. There is a hedge on its far side and houses beyond that. The whole scene is lit in gold tones by a low sun (picking out gold trim on the bin), and the tree, the hedge and the scattering of leaves on the grass are all autumnal oranges and browns.

Autumnal #ThursdayBins
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phew

Also, in haste as I have to dash off, I see: viijeme Jour septembre mil six cent something.

French hand not my strong suit, but the names look to me like thomas baillet and marye beurre?

Thank you! 😊

A view across a road down one side of a side-road, showing the road markings and the end of the pub on the corner, made of white-painted brick with windows of white frames and bright red surrounds; it has one full storey and a dormer window in its roof. Down the road ahead is a series of two-story buildings, largely of yellow brick. The sky is obscured by thick cloud.

West End/Chiefs Street, Ely.
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Beautiful.

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That's very kind! And I know exactly what you mean.

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