tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998770.post4452864586431548130..comments2024-03-29T10:25:18.133-04:00Comments on The AC is On: The Carleton Martello TowerAnvilcloudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974744042579564912noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998770.post-61343412335958467962010-08-14T07:38:39.067-04:002010-08-14T07:38:39.067-04:00I didn't know they had Martello Towers in any ...I didn't know they had Martello Towers in any other place than England and Ireland. I visited one several years back in Ireland and it was quite hard to see over the edge, the wall being quite high and really really wide!Marahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04464946195661953578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998770.post-8647016144866382162010-08-14T05:09:17.593-04:002010-08-14T05:09:17.593-04:00Hey TG: If I ever read that poem I forget it altho...Hey TG: If I ever read that poem I forget it although the one line at least seems very familiar -- "Like gold to airy thinness beat." I enjoyed JD way back when.Anvilcloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974744042579564912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998770.post-35622603590935203662010-08-14T01:46:26.511-04:002010-08-14T01:46:26.511-04:00I appreciate John Donne. He once used the metapho...I appreciate John Donne. He once used the metaphor of a mathematical compass to describe the relationship he had with his wife. He was about to set off on a lengthy journey and didn't want his wife to worry. He described her as his Foot and his Centre, the point around which he revolved.<br /><br />The Compass, by John Donne<br /><br />Dull sublunary lovers' love <br />(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit <br />Absence, because it doth remove <br />Those things which elemented it. <br /><br /><br />But we by a love so much refin'd, <br />That ourselves know not what it is, <br />Inter-assured of the mind, <br />Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. <br /><br /><br />Our two souls therefore, which are one, <br />Though I must go, endure not yet <br />A breach, but an expansion, <br />Like gold to airy thinness beat. <br /><br /><br />If they be two, they are two so <br />As stiff twin compasses are two; <br />Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show <br />To move, but doth, if the' other do. <br /><br /><br />And though it in the centre sit, <br />Yet when the other far doth roam, <br />It leans, and hearkens after it, <br />And grows erect, as that comes home. <br /><br /><br />Such wilt thou be to me, who must <br />Like th' other foot, obliquely run; <br />Thy firmness makes my circle just, <br />And makes me end, where I begun.Turtle Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11867461015503674899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998770.post-28710190944848998522010-08-13T21:31:25.886-04:002010-08-13T21:31:25.886-04:00Gorgeous day and equally gorgeous photos. Good th...Gorgeous day and equally gorgeous photos. Good thing no man is an island, or my latest post would still be saying 'boluder'. Thanks for the catch. Owe you.MARY Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13178370815712313585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998770.post-32243055950374501882010-08-13T18:38:13.337-04:002010-08-13T18:38:13.337-04:00I love those old, old structures! I wished that yo...I love those old, old structures! I wished that you could have gone inside and taken photos, if they'd let you. This is so cool!<br />Love Di ♥Dianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11429812875586479256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998770.post-75356894856651853432010-08-13T13:54:52.342-04:002010-08-13T13:54:52.342-04:00It is always eerie to see a left over such as this...It is always eerie to see a left over such as this from WW II or other wars. I had the same feeling when visiting San Francisco and saw the pill boxes on the coast line.Ginniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12749133391349265563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998770.post-1222610732148781862010-08-13T13:15:49.500-04:002010-08-13T13:15:49.500-04:00I have never been to this place AC, it does look l...I have never been to this place AC, it does look like a place I would enjoy ...... will add it to my list..........:-)HugsBerniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03024565921761129108noreply@blogger.com