water towers


another iPhone shot 
looking up
 shadows
 old and newer
 architectural
 designs
 and
a
 water tank/tower

I did a lot of reading
 this past weekend
 partially
 as a defense
 against
 the non stop football
 Toonman
 watches

 yet 
it was a lovely escape into fantasy
 into the past

 when I was a kid
 The Aunt
 my dad's sister
 who I was close to
 was a great reader
 one of her guilty pleasures
 was 
Georgette Heyer novels

 do you know Georgette Heyer?
 Click
  here 
to read about her

 she wrote romance novels
 set in the Regency era
 in London
 a time of manners
 the time of Jane Austin
 they were
 easy
 escapist
reading
 The Aunt
 loved those books
 so much
 when she passed
 her daughter-in-law
 put
 one of The Aunt's favorite Heyer novels into The Aunt's casket 
we also did something
 others 
will find insane

 we poured a cup of hot black coffee
 over the closed casket
 The Aunt
loved
 her
 coffee hot and black

  it made all of us smile

I didnt read any Heyer this past weekend
 I read
 a series 3 books
 by Anna Godbersen
 click here

  they were a little more risqué 
than Heyer's books
 not quite Shades of Grey
 but
 for sure
 less innocent
 then 
the originals

anyway
 they were a quick fun read
if you want to escape
 into
 New York in 1899
 this is your ticket!