Upcoming Projects: Etched in Stone
From (Irish) Sea to Shining (Mediterranean) Sea: An historic spiritual journey from Solway Firth on the Irish Sea in Scotland, to Hadrian's Wall in England and south through the Lake District, the West Country, London and across the Channel to France. From Paris, Normandy and Brittany in the north through the redolent French countryside to romantic Provence on the Mediterranean Sea. Everywhere, stories and legends of the glorious past are written in stone: churches, castles, monuments, monoliths and other stone remnants.

We are off to the Travel Adventure Cinema Society convention in Albuquerque this weekend (Sept.6,7,8 '08) to show excerpts from "Etched in Stone," "La Manche," and "The Missions of Father Serra." In Scotland, we have filmed in Loch Lomond and Trosssachs National Park; Inchmahome Priory on the Lake of Menteith; Doune Castle where "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was filmed; Stirling, the ancient capital; and Falkirk where a modern Wheel connects canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Whithorn - the White House, more ancient than Iona - where the Scottish St. Ninian arrived from Rome with a mission to spread the Gospel. Christianity arrived in Scotland and northern England, and spread outward and downward from these remote northern climes. Dundrennan Abbey where Mary, Queen of Scots, spent her last night in Scotland before throwing herself on the mercy of her cousin, Elizabeth I; and the evocative red stone ruins of Sweetheart Abbey, surely the inspiration for Valentine's Day.

We'll finish in Provence - Le Ciotat and Orange: cave paintings, menhirs and Roman remains. Charleval and La Roque d'Anthéron, Provençal villages; Lamanoun caves and cliffs; cathedral and town of Aix-en-Provence. Lacoste in the Luberon mountains: the village of Pierre Cardin and the castle of the Marquis de Sade; the stone shepherds' huts (Bories); castles, monsters and Tatarin's House in Tarascon on the River Rhone which leads to the shores of the Mediterranean and the Calanques, picturesque inlets between Marseilles and Cassis.

Many stops along the way: London and Paris and the obelisks of ancient Egypt; the Trooping of the Colour; a stroll along the Seine fro Notre Dame to the Eiffel Tower; the English Lake District of poets and misty standing stones; the West Country of Glastonbury Abbey, magical musical Dartmoor, Carn Euny Ancient Village. Stonehenge. Northern France: Norman and Breton country churches; Mont St. Michel and Le Dol de Bretagne; plinths and obelisks; the Cathedral of St. Tugdual at Treguier, and Cathedral at Coutances.