This is one of my favorite pictures from the trip. It's a cobblestone lane leading to Riber Castle. I felt like I'd stepped back in time as we walked down this lane away from the castle.

This is a picture of Riber Castle near Matlock. Our friends in Lea told us that this place is a 'foley', or a 'fake castle'. In Andrew's words, he said "Some chap in the late 1800s looked atop the hill and said, 'I fancy myself a castle.' So he built one to show off...

Yes, they were everywhere. Littering the countryside with their round, wooly, languid bodies and varied bleating. Somehow, I'd have missed the sheep if they hadn't been so plentiful and apparent, because it made England feel much more like....England. Of course, I've...

No, this book is not a new Christian fiction release. It is actually a nonfiction book penned by masterful storyteller and author Sol Stein. His insites to crafting a novel are brilliant and opened my mind to new ways of developing characters in my stories. Chapter 5...

This is an example of the stone walls trailing through the Derbyshire countryside and throughout most of England. We learned that these walls were constructed to help give work to poor people in need of income. It was kind of like Roosevelt's New Deal here in the...

A view from our walk in Dethick to Riber. Sheep were everywhere and color-coded too. Some had blue markings on them, others had pink.Old barns were scattered across the countryside almost as prevalent as the stone walls along the footpaths. It was a gloriously foggy...