A Visit with Penelope

About once a year I have to visit Penelope Keeling from Rosamunde Pilcher's "The Shellseekers". I know she would welcome me into her home as warmly as she would any of her guests, for she always loved having company.

She might have taken me on a stroll through her charming Cotswold village, where she lived in her later years...

She loved her friends there, often

entertaining them and delighting

everyone with her very unique sense of style.



I am sure she would tell me stories

of her girlhood days in Cornwall

when she climbed over the

rocks by the ocean...

and lived in the little granite cottage

that had a palm tree, with her papa and Sophie...and where she fell in

love with Richard.

What a lovely story.

So lovely, that a few years ago

I made Jim take me

to those old winding

streets to wander around

where

Penelope would have walked..

it was

just as I pictured it.