Lovely weekend in Sewanee, Tennessee

I never remember to take photos when I am on vacation.  I mean to.  I WANT to.  I am just usually so caught up in the experience and the people that I just don't remember to.  So I tried to do a little better this weekend when I visited my friends Lee and Will Phillips and the fabulous Mimi Howard in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Sewanee is home to the University of the South and it is quite literally like stepping into Oxford, England, I'm told.  The campus is breaktaking and the village charming.  I still failed a little at taking as many photos as I would have liked, but will show you the ones I managed to remember to take.

All Saint's Chapel on the domain (campus) is pretty much a cathedral.  It was absolutely stunning.  Lee and Will were married here.

The baptismal font.

Gorgeous altar.

I wish I could show you how beautiful this really is.

Candlelit and fleur-de-lys embellished choir loft.

From the nave to the narthex.

I never did get a nice photo of the rose window in the back, but it was spectacular.

A side door in the narthex.  Gorgeous!

The seal in the floor as you enter the narthex from the main doors.  Freshmen are not to walk on it.

My beautiful hostess and I (don't we look like sisters??) also took a walk in Abbo's Alley and saw some of the beautiful views there, but she cut the walk short when my whining about being hot got too much.  Stop laughing, friends.  You know I was whining.  Here are some of the pretty things we saw there.

We also attended a noon service at The Chapel of the Apostles at the University of the South School of Theology.  It was really fun to see all the seminarians there, so earnest and discerning, and to hear a short homily.  The idea was introduced in this homily that perhaps Peter was an ESFP.  As Lee and I are Meyer-Briggs junkies, we giggled.  We think it was pretty accurate.

The Chapel of the Apostles.  The view out all that glass was amazing.  You couldn't see any of the surrounding buildings or houses, really.

The legend is (I never got a clear understanding of how this legend started)  that the domain is protected by Sewanne angels.  So there are angels everywhere.  Everywhere.  We saw this lovely hand-painted one at a local gift shop called the Lemon Fair.  Isn't she pretty?  I may have to try painting some angels.

I had a wonderful retreat weekend, and can't thank my hosts enough.  Who knew we had this little jewel tucked away in the mountains of Tennessee?  It was just exactly what I needed.