This document provides a summary of Holly's sabbatical in 2013 where she walked and drew in England and Scotland. It describes her visits to various churches, cathedrals, and landmarks in locations such as London, Oundle, York, Durham, Edinburgh, Iona, Swaledale and includes sketches she drew along the way.

1. Holly’s sabbatical 2013
Walking & Drawing in
England & Scotland

2. A prayer from St. Bede for the sabbatical

3. Ready to go!

4. London
from the roof restaurant of the National Portrait Gallery

5. First sketch of the sabbatical, passing time in the Vodafone store!

6. Sloane Square fountain – striving for perspective

7. My first Eucharist in England at the great 19th century
Arts-&-Crafts Movement church,
Holy Trinity, Sloane Square

8. St. Kyneburgha’s, Castor, Peterborough
Our great-grandmother’s baptism happened here in 1879

9. My siblings and their spouses honor our grandmother Aglae Lyman’s new headstone

10. The Rev. Canon William Burke with our great-grandmother’s baptism register;
Her family’s 17th century home, Castor House

11. The Castor House Dovecote

12. Peterborough Cathedral for evensong

13. On to Oundle, Northamptonshire to walk the Nene Way

14. Signing into the Nene Way

15. Public footpath leads to the Saxon church at Cotterstock

16. Quiet moods of the Oundle River

17. St. Peter’s threshold, inside & out

18. The Ship Inn, a good pub

19. And good pub food!
Lancashire sausage & mashed, and berry pudding with custard

20. Sky? Or water on the Oundle?

21. Canal boat navigates the lock on the Nene

22. The Elizabethan Gallery at the Talbot Hotel

23. Peterborough train station café

24. The medieval city of York

25. The ancient walls of York

26. The York Shambles

27. The Cathedral & University town of Durham

28. Outside the Cathedral Close – St. Mary the Less for Evening Prayer

29. The Castle holds the University

30. Evensong with the girls’ choir @ Durham Cathedral nave
& the encircling River Wear

31. Moods of the Wear River

32. Stairs replace streets.. And I sketch them at the restaurant at the top

33. Walking the River Wear to Crook Hall

36. Sheep & June grain along the River Wear

37. The blessed Godric’s hermitage on the River Wear

38. On To Edinburgh to sing Handel ode

39. Arthur’s Seat and the view of Edinburgh from the top

40. Two Sundays at St. Giles Cathedral & the Royal Mile

41. Georgian Edinburgh New Town: Scotland St.

42. Old Town Edinburgh and trying for New Town perspective

43. A trip to Fife: St. Andrews medieval pilgrimage site

44. A passerby takes a snap… and on to Falkland Palace

45. Greyfriars Bobby Pub and Rehearsal with LA Master Chorale’s Grant Gershon

46. Handel’s L’Allegro ed il Pensieroso at Greyfriars Kirk…& two happy sopranos

47. Princes Street Gardens & tea at the National Gallery

48. Farewell to Edinburgh

49. From Edinburgh to Iona, across Scotland

50. On to retreat on the island of Iona

52. Arriving on Iona off the ferry

53. The ferry as I saw it from my hotel window

54. Iona Abbey & village from the Iona “I”

56. St. Columba’s Bay on Iona, and in my interpretation

57. Iona Abbey, prayers at 9 AM and 9 PM daily

58. The island of Staffa

59. Puffins & basalt columns on Staffa

60. Fingal’s Cave

61. The Iona “I” from the water

62. Bishop’s House chapel

63. Prayer in the Abbey chapel

64. Abbey altar

65. The side aisle of the Abbey

67. Iona the last morning

68. Crossing Mull & Highlands Scotland

71. A glimpse of Glasgow: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
The Lighthouse
The Mackintosh Rose

72. Glasgow School of Art

73. Back to County Durham

74. Hardwick Country Park, County Durham

76. Newcastle upon Tyne – the Sage Theatre

77. Durham City again

78. Durham Castle from Silver St. bridge

79. Durham skyline from the Wear River

80. Lastingham Church on the North Yorkshire moors

81. 12th century crypt chapel opens in the nave center aisle

82. Chanted Vespers at Ampleforth Abbey Benedictine monastery in North Yorkshire

83. Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire

84. Hiking in Weardale, County Durham

85. Lindisfarne Island

86. Lindisfarne Castle & garden, and Holly on the shore

87. Lindisfarne Abbey

88. St. Cuthbert’s Hermitage & chapel in the village

89. Fish N Chips

90. Angel of the North, Gateshead, County Durham

91. Escomb Church: the oldest Saxon church in England

92. On to Swaledale, Yorkshire, via Eden Valley, Cumbria

93. Draycott Hall & the Coach House, Fremington

94. Swale River in Swaledale, Yorkshire

95. Hiking in Swaledale

96. Enroute to a lead-mining camp on the moors

97. Looking across the dale at Fremington Edge

98. Lead-smelting mining camp

99. The upland moors and an Iron Age fort overlooking Swaledale

100. Across the ancient stepping stones on the Swale
and up the Nuns’ Causey (Causeway)

101. St. Andrew’s Grinton, Swaledale, inside & out

102. Ancient convent, Marrick Priory, has become an outdoor center for urban kids

103. Mine tailings up on Fremington Edge

104. Views over Reeth and down Swaledale from Fremington Edge

105. Ancient walls, ancient tree

106. Muker from above

107. St. Mary’s Elizabethan church, and view down the Swale above the town

108. The Swale above Muker, en route to Keld and the top of the dale

112. Coming into Keld, at the top of Swaledale

113. Evening over Bolton Castle in Wensleydale