Yorkshire Walking Tour 2005

©2005-2022 Alvy Ray Smith (Ars Longa). All rights reserved. All images made with Nikon Coolpix 7900  (small, light, 7.1 megapixel) digital camera. All JPEG, handheld.

A group of about two dozen genealogy enthusiasts, including myself, recently took a 10-day walking tour of Yorkshire in England. These are a few idiosyncratic shots from that tour.

"Temple" above Rievaulx Abbey Fountain Abbey tessellation

The walking tour group Markenfield Hall (collage)

From left: Peter, Jan, Kate (I think), Joan, George, Melinde, Ann-Marie (almost hidden), Don, Seth, Sandra, Larry, Bart, Paul, Joyce, unnamed lecturer (standing on fence), ?, Sherry, Robert, Marsha (behind Robert) [missing or unidentified: Carol (behind Don), Nick, Judy, Jo, Dean (offscreen left), Alvy (behind camera)]
Yorkminster facade (collage) Rookery on Flamborough Head
Castle Howard, where Brideshead Revisited was filmed Castle Howard's boar
Caedmon's dangerous cross Lastingham churchyard cross
Yorkminster painted pipes   Yorkminster pipes
Fountain Abbey with tree Fountain Abbey with bird
St. Mary's near Fountain Abbey St. Mary's (with Don and Melinde)
Robin Hood's Bay (with Joyce and Seth) Dean communing with camera, Flamborough Head
More Fountain Abbey tessellations
Fountain Abbey tessellations in situ
Green Man at Fountain Abbey Head at church of the Rudston monolith
Multicolored inlet on Flamborough Head Flamborough Head