the Dalaverse

Okay. The first of what I'm sure will be many, many picspams. One Dala. Three and a half months. Two cameras. You do some kind of math with that, and get back to me when I've crashed Photobucket.

This will be the first entry in the category called Daytripping, which will include all the trips outside of Oxford and London (except for Scotland, which is a category unto itself). The first interesting place I went was Salisbury and Stonehenge, so it was the first to uploaded when the parents started clamoring for pictures.



I took a bus from Oxford to Salisbury with John Henry and Laura. We planned to hit the cathedral and then take another bus to nearby Stonehenge, which is precisely what we did. Okay, so we stopped in at a tavern for lunch first.



Salisbury Cathedral. Is beautiful. It was difficult to get a wide shot, though.



See how pretty it was that day, though?



I think I remember enough of Art History to call this the clerestory.



Heavenwards!



A very pretty font. Fount? I think it's font.



Stained glass! It's, uh, Jesus and stuff. Yeah.



A knight's tomb. Isn't there something about the placement of the hands and sword that indicates whether he died on crusade or at home? I can't remember.



The pulpit, with these CREEPY DEAD-EYED angels hovering over it. There was this display that kept ruining my beautiful long shots of the nave. A better close-up:



Are they not fucking creepy?!



Ooooh dramatic lighting.



This was a window in memorial to victims of persecution, or something. I'll Wikipedia it -- eh, Wiki has failed me, it doesn't say. It does say, however, that Salisbury is 'the tallest surviving pre-1400 spire in the world,' which is exciting.



More dramatic lighting, and gahhhhceilingarchesaresosexy.



A shot spoiled by its being crooked and containing a bit of John Henry's bright yellow jacket. And by those stupid angels.





I think this was from a little interior garden. Laura and John Henry had been all through it and were patiently waiting for me to finish my orgy with camera and cathedral.



Finally a decent photo of the edifice. See how the sky is blue? Yeah, that doesn't happen very often in January.

So that's Salisbury, and it was more than worth the trip, especially if you've got a jones for cathedrals. Unfortunately we were't allowed photography in the Chapter House, which is filled with a beautiful frieze and an original copy of the -- ::breathes:: Magna Carta.