Icarus @ 59 # 330

Three hundred days of this blog, of this my sixtieth year, and last night was a full moon (I think - certainly a big moon, and Big Moon will mean more to my children than other readers). This picture is Winchester Cathedral on Wednesday night. I had been out to dinner with a visitor to the university and I snapped it on the way back to my car. There is something quite majestic about the old place and it has seen many stories unfold in its time. Me, I just liked the scene, the picture it presented, I was just sauntering by, not in any rush, not thinking about too much except the cold night air and the guy who stopped me and asked if he could buy a cigarette. 'I don't...' said I. 'Neither do I,' said he - a strange exchange on a cold night. Although something else occurred to me after I took the picture; I have carried this quotation around in different forms for a long time and I am not sure this is an accurate version of it but it goes is something like, 'Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, some have entertained angels without knowing...' 'I don't,' said I. 'Neither do I,' he said... I wonder if  I was hospitable enough, I wonder if he ever spoke to an angel, I wonder if he ever saw Icarus fly, I wonder if he saw the whole of the moon: