June42012

Bond.
1AM

enchantedengland:

thisisrealness:Loving all the little touches people are applying to get in the spirit of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee… these are all within 100yds of the studio…
1AM
“We said when you are alone and afraid, I will come to your aid.” Again & Again - Keane
April292012
enchantedengland: annaharo:untitled by IrenaS on Flickr. enchantedengland: Regent Street, London in bokeh, lovely.

enchantedengland:

annaharo:untitled by IrenaS on Flickr.

enchantedengland: Regent Street, London in bokeh, lovely.
2PM
“I long to feel that wince in my heart, as I go searching—right to the start. Now I’m waiting for you.”

Kingdom of Rust - Doves

I’ve been looking back on the 2 years I’ve interned at Wesley a lot this weekend and cannot help but be thankful. The best way of telling where someone’s going is to see where they’ve been, and thanks to the internship I’m heading in a very different direction that I would have been. To me, this lyric is about someone going back to a beginning before they can move beyond an end. I’m about to do a lot of that, but I know my next beginning will be a good one too.
April192012
demons: As a part of Operation Market-Garden, British armor approach Nijmegen’s bridge in Holland. Taken from the Germans by the US 82nd Airborne Division after an epic river crossing in small boats under heavy enemy fire, the Allies would continue to ward off German attempts to destroy the structure for some time.

demons:

As a part of Operation Market-Garden, British armor approach Nijmegen’s bridge in Holland. Taken from the Germans by the US 82nd Airborne Division after an epic river crossing in small boats under heavy enemy fire, the Allies would continue to ward off German attempts to destroy the structure for some time.
April182012
demons: Shortly after 10AM on Sunday, 17 September 1944, from airfields all over southern England the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled for a single operation took to the air. In this, the 263rd week of World War II, the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight David Eisenhower, unleashed Market-Garden, one of the most daring and imaginative operations of the war. Surprisingly, Market-Garden, a combined airborne and ground offensive, was authored by one of the most cautious of all the Allied commanders, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery.Market, the airborne phase of the operation, was monumental: it involved almost five thousand fighters, bombers, transports and more than 2500 gliders. That Sunday afternoon, at exactly 1:30PM, in an unprecedented daylight assault, an entire Allied airborne army, complete with vehicles and equipment, began dropping behind the German lines. The target for this bold and historic invasion from the sky: Nazi-occupied Holland.On the ground, poised along the Dutch-Belgian border, were the Garden forces, massed tank columns of the British Second Army. At 2:35PM, preceded by artillery and led by swarms of rocket-firing fighters, the tanks began a dash up the backbone of Holland along a strategic route the paratroopers were already fighting to capture and hold open.Montgomery’s ambitious plan was designed to sprint the troops and tanks trough Holland, springboard across the Rhine and into Germany itself. Operation Market-Garden, Montgomery reasoned, was the lightning stroke needed to topple the Third Reich and effect the end of the war in 1944.He was wrong. A Bridge Too Far, Cornelius Ryan The battle that got me interested in history.

demons:

Shortly after 10AM on Sunday, 17 September 1944, from airfields all over southern England the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled for a single operation took to the air. In this, the 263rd week of World War II, the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight David Eisenhower, unleashed Market-Garden, one of the most daring and imaginative operations of the war. Surprisingly, Market-Garden, a combined airborne and ground offensive, was authored by one of the most cautious of all the Allied commanders, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery.

Market, the airborne phase of the operation, was monumental: it involved almost five thousand fighters, bombers, transports and more than 2500 gliders. That Sunday afternoon, at exactly 1:30PM, in an unprecedented daylight assault, an entire Allied airborne army, complete with vehicles and equipment, began dropping behind the German lines. The target for this bold and historic invasion from the sky: Nazi-occupied Holland.

On the ground, poised along the Dutch-Belgian border, were the Garden forces, massed tank columns of the British Second Army. At 2:35PM, preceded by artillery and led by swarms of rocket-firing fighters, the tanks began a dash up the backbone of Holland along a strategic route the paratroopers were already fighting to capture and hold open.

Montgomery’s ambitious plan was designed to sprint the troops and tanks trough Holland, springboard across the Rhine and into Germany itself. Operation Market-Garden, Montgomery reasoned, was the lightning stroke needed to topple the Third Reich and effect the end of the war in 1944.

He was wrong.

A Bridge Too Far, Cornelius Ryan

The battle that got me interested in history.
April162012

George Washington was the man.

9AM
fromeuropewithlove: The Louvre, Paris, France

fromeuropewithlove:

The Louvre, Paris, France

(Source: National Geographic)
9AM
theworldwelivein: Castle of Presule, South Tirol, Italy © Zoltan Toth

theworldwelivein:

Castle of Presule, South Tirol, Italy
© Zoltan Toth
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