Our house is currently awash with orchids in bloom, and in fact many have been in bloom for several weeks. This week’s photograph is of a gorgeous creamy-yellow Dendrobium which is on my study windowsill. While I never seem to be able to get the wonderful display of blooms the plants have when you buy them (well they won’t be getting optimum light, water etc.) orchids are not that hard to get back into flower — so if you have one, don’t throw it out when it finishes flowering.
Dendrobium Greenford; June 2015
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This week’s photograph is a wild flower, Red Campion, which was growing in the woodland burial site where we interred my mother last week. It is just a small taste of how delightful a place this is.
Red Campion Colney, Norwich; June 2015
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This week’s photograph is a view which it isn’t so easy to get: the spire of Norwich cathedral from the SW. It was taken from the back window of my mother’s solicitors reception area. What a stunning view to have out of your office window!
Norwich Cathedral May 2015
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Noreen found these two feathers in the garden yesterday afternoon. They are from a Greater Spotted Woodpecker. The top one, a secondary wing feather, is about 8.5cm in total length. The lower is a primary feather. Note the feathers come from different wings, as they curve in opposite directions.
GSW Feather Greenford, June 2015
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I spotted this on the menu of a Taylor Walker pub in central London — Mayfair, forsooth! — on Saturday. It raised quite a giggle amongst the assembled company.
This week’s photograph is one I took on Saturday. It shows the commemorative plaque to General Sikorski who was leader of the exiled Polish forces in WWII. The plaque is on the (astonishingly expensive) Rubens Hotel, right opposite the entrance to Buckingham Palace Mews, which was the Polish forces GHQ for most of the War. This is not just a piece of history for it will resonate with Anthony Powell fans. Powell spent most of his war years as Military Intelligence (Liaison) and for much of that time was the officer responsible for liason with the Polish Allies — so he would have known the Rubens Hotel well.
Click the image for larger views on Flickr to read the lettering Rubens Hotel, Polish Plaque London, 2 May 2015
I’m sorry the image isn’t brilliant, but the hotel’s display board is at comfortable reading height, so the plaque is a couple of feet above my head height and I’ve had to correct the verticals in the image.
This week’s photograph was taken as an experiment. Yes, it really is the sun partially obscured by cloud. I took it when I was playing around testing out exposure settings on my small camera so I could photograph the partial solar eclipse of 20 March 2015. (As it turned out there was no chance of seeing the eclipse due to cloud.) This is the best of several shots, taken at varying exposures, I wanted to see how it really would stand up as an actual image. Experimental, but I think quite interesting.
Cloudy Sun Greenford; March 2015
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So there I was in Uxbridge a few weeks ago, sitting waiting people watching while for Noreen to emerge from M&S, when these three beauties happened along. They seemed to be about to enact Act 1, Scene 1 of Macbeth.
Macbeth Act 1, Scene 1 in Modern Dress Uxbridge, March 2015
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This week’s photograph is another from the archives and is specially for all those who know and love Dungeness — and especially for Katy! Dungeness is just such a wonderful place: open, bright, wind-swept, desolate and isolated. As one of the largest areas of natural shingle habitat in Europe it is also ecologically important.
This is Prospect Cottage, the late Derek Jarman’s cottage in the middle of Dungeness, with the minimalist garden he laid out amongst the shingle.
Prospect Cottage, Dungeness Dungeness, August 2010
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This week another round of pussy porn, with another couple of Tilly being cute — she does it so well when she isn’t being a turbo-charged varmint. Both shots were taken last week.
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