The Road to New Isengard

Photo workshop went quite well, I think.  My skills may be rudimentary but they were still comfortably better than anyone present, which I always think is the key factor for skills training.  So I may not have taught them All the Things, but they all learned Things they didn't know, at any rate.

In other news, I walked through the Sarumanish quarry the other day, because I felt that experiencing a strange place full of windowless buildings that make bangs and crashes randomly, as if trolls were imprisoned within, would be good practice for the hounds at Coping with the Scary.

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Some distance down the road, what looks like a House of Mewlips.
( The shadows where the Mewlips dwell are dark and wet as ink... unless someone has got a bit overbusy with gamma correction so you can see the damp before ... slow and softly rings their bell as in the slime you sink. )

In other, other news, I have discovered that it is now possible to buy licorice and cinnamon herb tea.   Why was I not informed of this previously???