About Clare B. Dunkle
The European Landscape

I grew up in a Western state, where rainfall is infrequent and violent and where the countryside is usually decorated in hues of tan and sage green. My hometown wasn’t settled until after the Civil War, so the oldest structures in our area are from the late 1800’s. If an author is supposed to write about what she knows, I would have had to limit my descriptions to strip malls and overgrazed pastures bristling with thistles and prickly pear.

Fortunately, my family and I have spent the last seven years in Europe, where I’ve grown accustomed to white threads of mist in the late afternoon, gentle showers, old stone buildings, towering trees, lavender clouds, and green-green-green everywhere I look. The influence of Europe on my manuscripts is as pervasive as morning fog. I’ve put together this collection of photographs to share with you readers some of the sights that have had an impact on my thinking, prose, and plotting style.

Heidelberg, Germany

Blenheim Palace, England

Eilean Musdile Lighthouse, Scotland

Chatsworth Hall, England

Winter in the fjords, Norway

Tomb in Colmar, France

Maze in Chatsworth, England

Crypt in Bayeux, France

Tree in Tortosa, Spain

House in York, England

Keukenhof Gardens, The Netherlands

Vatican Museum, Italy

The Moench, Switzerland

Haworth Churchyard, England

The Orsay in Paris, France

The Casemates of Luxembourg City

Bavarian Alps, Germany

Stephansdom, Vienna, Austria

Ripley Castle, England

Chatsworth, England

Baptistry, Sienna, Italy

Verdun Battlefield, France

Funeral monument in Beaune, France

Chapel of the Holy Blood, Bruges, Belgium

Snowshill Manor, England

Snowshill Manor, England

Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Italy

Webpage text copyright 2007 by Clare B. Dunkle. All photos copyright 2007 by Joseph R. Dunkle. Please ask permission before copying them or any other photos on this site.