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Streams of light reach their fingers through the clouds

Hope of a future still to come

The bare bones of the trees stripped of their leaves

Sign of the battle in my past

Tomorrow I will sail above those clouds

Sue Vincent's Thursday Photoprompt
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A visit to the Mayflower at Rotherhithe #WordlessWednesday











My ancestors' photograph in pride of place below the Mayflower.

The story of my barge building family on the Thames 
https://somerville66.blogspot.com/2014/10/building-thames-barges.html

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The story of the Nativity between the churches of Guia #WordlessWednesday #Portugal






















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