Sanctuary
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Willing sacrifice
Standing open to the winds
Stripped of artifice
Naked before the altar
The soul finds sanctuary
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The photo for this week’s prompt is the Temple of Ancient Virtue. It was taken in the gardens of Stowe House, near Buckingham… famed both for its gardens and its school. I have to say that we never did the place justice when we visited… our focus was the little church in the grounds… and we had already been sidetracked that day by the ‘Cathedral in the Fields’… an incredible place that we ended up visiting a number of times… and still had to go back to in search of the ‘miracle of the Virgin.’ I suppose, one of these days, I ought to go back with the camera…
Thank you so much to everyone who took part this week. Not part of the challenge, and entirely coincidentally, Darlene Foster sent me a guest post that was published this week entitled Peaceful Sanctuary at Novelda, that allowed us to visit a Gaudi-inspired church in Spain.
I have shared as many contributions as I could during the week; I schedule reblogs as posts come in, until I run out of space. All the posts are listed below, please click on the links below to read them and leave a comment for the author!
A new prompt will be published later today and all contributions will be featured in the round-up on Thursday.
Pinbacks have been uncertain this week… if you have written a post for this challenge and it does not appear in the round-up, please leave a link to your post in the comments and I will add it to the list.
Come and join in!
Many thanks to this weeks contributors:
Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files
Robbie Cheadle at Robbie’s Inspiration
D. Wallace Peach at Myths of the Mirror
Joelle LeGendre at Two on a Rant
Martha at Freidenkerin’s Weblog
Helen Jones from Journey to Ambeth
Anurag Bakhshi at Jagah Dil Mein Honi Chahiye
Eric Pone at Backyard Knowledge
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
Fandango at This, That and the Other
Trent also added a second part to the story
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Mine appears to have missed the linkage last week due to a few hitches my end.
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Sorry that happened! I’ve added it to the round-up.
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Thanks Sue. I checked that this week’s had logged in ok, but it seems we are all having a few problems with WP.
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One or two….
I’m stll catching up with comments and posts… though WP notofications tellme I have already done so … yeah, right!
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Keep at it! 🙂
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🙂
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Great entries again xxx
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One thing you didn’t say in your write up – I wasn’t the only one who read the prompt as winter, a lot of us did (I guess we looked outside of our windows), but when I wrote my “part 2”, I realized that it wasn’t winter at all in the photo! It was just the way you “developed” it that put a lot of white in. Anyway, a lot of good entries, as usual.
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The original pic is here: https://scvincent.com/2013/07/16/middle-of-nowhere/… a gorgeous sunny day in full leaf 🙂
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yes, it does look like a very nice day.
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It was 🙂
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Thanks for the beautiful prompt and all the reading fun, Sue!
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The writers come up trumps every time 🙂
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it was great seeing all the contributions.
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There are always such good stories…
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