Looking through the window of love
There’s something very special about stained glass. Whether you are a reverent person or simply one who loves beauty, it can’t fail to move you. I could not visit Bristol without a return to the lovely cathedral, where you can get up really close to the windows in the cloisters. The details and expressions are wonderful.
If you are wondering about my six words this week, I have a confession to make. (since I’m in the right setting) I had Alf Moyet in my head when I conceived them, but when I checked the lyrics… well, I often seem to make up my own. Blame a faulty memory.
Hopefully I gave you a Saturday smile, Debbie, and I expect Dawn wouldn’t mind a few more windows to linger by. Happy weekend, all!
restlessjo 
Stained glass windows and older architecture always looks so good. I prefer them to the modern buildings.
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I like both- it depends very much on the work. 🙂 🙂
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Lovely! There’s something so special about stained glass windows, isn’t there?
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It’s such a beautiful craft, Susan. 🙂
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I love the way the light makes patterns as it passes through the stained glass Jo – thanks for sharing these as I suspect I’ll never get to see them live.
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I don’t suspect you will, Tina, but you’ll have seen lots of other beauty. I know this for a fact 🙂 🙂
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Have a wonderful Saturday Jo. These are beautiful works ~
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Some of my favourite stained glass anywhere Mary. Watching Rafa right now xx
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Great photos Jo, I love stained glass windows 🙂
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There are so many lovely ones, Eunice, but I especially like these. Happy Saturday! 🙂 🙂
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Wonderful Windows, Jo, and that Moyet song took me back to the day when I saw her in concert!
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Anabel saw her too. I bet you weren’t at the same venue. 🙂 🙂 Wish I could remember song lyrics.
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Somewhere in London, sometime in the late ’80s…
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Haha I do that all the time Jo, and am met with exasperated looks from my family 😀 Love the windows, and how well you have captured all the details.
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An easy mistake to make, I think, Madhu, but I did feel silly when I played the video. 🙂 🙂 Thanks, darlin. Happy Saturday!
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To you too Jo 😘
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I don’t know about Debbie and Dawn (and all the other visitors here) but I’m smiling fer sure! Thanks.
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I bet you don’t have memory lapses, Ron. 🙂 🙂 Nice to make you smile, though.
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You’re right, stained glass is very special. We have a couple of stained glass windows in our house too. Lovely pics Jo. xo
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We have stained glass panels in our front door, Miriam. It’s such a joyful thing, especially when the sun shines through. 🙂 🙂 Thanks, darlin! Happy Sunday!
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How gorgeous! I agree, we have two kookaburras in our lounge room (stained glass) and it really brightens it up. Have a wonderful Sunday yourself Jo. 🙂
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They sound wonderful, Miriam. 🙂
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I agree, Jo. There is something really special about stained glass. Your shots are beautiful!
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The cloisters in Bristol are like nothing I’ve ever seen, Jill. Quite compelling. Thank you very much 🙂
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Sehr spannend und schön sind die Blicke in die Liebesfenster Jo… 😉
Have a good Sunday Ernst
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Danke, Ernst! Guten Samstag 🙂 🙂
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Fine images Jo – always like faces on stained glass – just the right texture.
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Have you been in Bristol Cathedral, Robin? It’s quite a remarkable building 🙂
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Never – actually spent very little time there – just a couple of rushed business trips 🤐
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It’s a great place for boaters 🙂 (and I don’t mean the straw kind)
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Happy Saturday, Jo. I agree with you regarding stained glass; there is a certain something to it!
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Especially with a shaft of sunlight through it, Tom. The icing on the cake 🙂 🙂
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You certainly gave me a smile Jo, have a great weekend 😄
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Thanks, Gilda 🙂 🙂 From here the only way is up!
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Beautiful windows, I love stained glass too. And Alison Moyet – saw her a few years ago, she was great.
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The cloisters are really remarkable, Anabel. 🙂 🙂 I like Alf too. Shame I’m not word perfect. Happy Saturday!
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Just beautiful. On our many travels Jo and I love to visit as many churches as we can, for their different beauty, the sanctuary they give to an often weary traveller and of course for a little prayer for safety and thanks.
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A prayer or two can never go amiss, Carina. Happy Saturday! 🙂
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They are great windows – and excellent photos – they aren’t easy to capture well.
And I’m a Moyet fan too – but would never have though of her for windows.
Have a great weekend
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The second line of the song, ‘it’s like a story of love’, might have made a better six words, Debs, but I was too busy chuckling. 🙂 🙂 Thanks, hon. You have to humour me sometimes.
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You’re right JO , “the details and expressions are wonderful” ….
I’d never cease to look at them…….
Thanks for these precious pictures
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It’s the loveliest little cloister that I know, Anna. Very different to most of them, and I’m a big fan of cloisters. 🙂 🙂 Happy Saturday!
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I’m wondering what they would have said if they had heard her music!
PS Very very impressed you remembered she even’s mention a window, I certainly hadn’t! Your memory can’t be faulty x
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I always liked her and I could ‘hear’ this in my head when I was thinking about the windows. I did feel silly when I looked it up though. 🙂 🙂
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She’s got such a gorgeous voice, not listened to her for years so happy I now have it in my head too 🙂
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I like trying to decipher the messages in stained glass windows.
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The expressions on the faces in these ones are what get me. 🙂 🙂
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