Sunset | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:54:34 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg Sunset | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 It was like a Church to me: Port Meadow, Oxford, at Sunset https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/26/it-was-like-a-church-to-me-port-meadow-at-sunset/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/26/it-was-like-a-church-to-me-port-meadow-at-sunset/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:40:54 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46581   I walked last night on Port Meadow. An extraordinary experience! The blazing ball of sun slowly floated into the Thames, colouring it crimson. An amazing natural event I have too often missed! Spectacular beauty lavished on anyone who would take a few minutes to observe it. Wild geese arrived honking, with a beating of wings, settling […]

The post It was like a Church to me: Port Meadow, Oxford, at Sunset first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/26/it-was-like-a-church-to-me-port-meadow-at-sunset/feed/ 6 Views from our Garden: From the Rising of the Sun to its Setting, let the Lord be Praised https://anitamathias.com/2012/01/12/views-from-our-garden-from-the-rising-of-the-sun-to-its-setting-let-the-lord-be-praised/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/01/12/views-from-our-garden-from-the-rising-of-the-sun-to-its-setting-let-the-lord-be-praised/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:37:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/01/12/views-from-our-garden-from-the-rising-of-the-sun-to-its-setting-let-the-lord-be-praised/ The Garden of our Lives It’s seed-planting season, and we’ve started our basil, parsley and coriander indoors. There’s a kind of inevitability to it–plant a basil seed, get basil; plant a sunflower seed, well, get sunflowers. When we look at the garden of our lives, our life as it is, with its components of family, […]

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