E is for Enchantment

Week E | Wednesday | Glimmer time ✨

Aug 05, 2026

Maxine and her daddy, Melbourne, Australia, 1940. Photographer unknown. Mummy?

Further to Monday’s post, a few more of Etheldreda Laing’s sublime, dreamlike autochromes of her daughters. The setting, their home of Bury Knowle House, is now Headington Library, its gardens a modernised public park. It has a zip-wire, sandpit, Narnia-inspired pirate boat and sculptures, sensory garden, tennis courts, the highest swings in Oxford, and a cafe. Paradise lost, though not perhaps for children.

Tree Guardians, John Kent.

“Under each station of the real, another glimmers.”

✨ Marcel Proust

Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706-1783).

Lupita Nyong’o by Kenny Germé for Who What Wear.

Here, have an entire album, perfect for Saturday or Sunday mornings, you’re welcome.

The Macon News, Georgia, 10 July 1915.

‘Riposhima’ brings dogs and other things to life with an incredible economy of strokes.

Don’t you love when you stumble across a memory and it gives you a glimmer? In this case I was sitting on my heated floor in South Korea in 2005, having just booked for the coming summer’s travel writing and photography conference at Book Passage in California, and it was fully dawning on me at last how I’m not a lawyer but an artist.