Another photo from the archives this week.
This magnificent palm tree was the centrepiece of St George’s Gardens (behind the Grosvenor Chapel and wedged between South Street and Mount Street in London’s Mayfair) a few years back. Considering this was taken in mid-February after a particularly frozen December, the tree looked in remarkable condition. And judging by the size it has been there quite a few years. A most handsome specimen. I hope it is still there.
Click the image for larger views on Flickr Palm Tree London, February 2011
This week’s photograph is a recent, simple one: flowers on the Horse Chestnut trees by A406 at Ealing Common. It was taken from the car while at traffic lights.
Click the image for larger views o Flickr Horse Chestnut Flowers Ealing; April 2014
This week another photograph I took some years ago on a day trip to Dublin. These two young lady Garda officers were on duty outside the iconic O’Connell Street Post Office. No doubt they were keeping a weather eye out for the untoward but they seemed more intent on chatting.
Click the image for larger views on Flickr Guarding O’Connell Street Post Office Dublin, October 2006
This week’s photo is another I took last October when Noreen and I travelled on the paddle-steamer Waverley from London (Tower Pier) to Southend. This shot of the Canary Wharf development was taken in the twilight on the way back to Tower Pier; I like city lights at night and the movement of the boat produces some interesting, almost other-worldly, effects.
Click the image for larger views on Flickr Dusk over Canary Wharf London; October 2013
This week it has to be time for some more pussy porn. So here’s one from earlier this month of Tilly the now-not-so-kitten (she’s coming up for a year old) sleeping on my desk. She’s a bit out of focus, apart from those paws, but this only adds to the pussyness!
Click the image for a larger view Office Varmint, Resting Greenford, April 2014
Nothing very exciting by way of photograph this week, just a patch of Common Liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha which I found several years ago growing among the street paving in Pinner. It was around 150mm across so had clearly been there for quite some while. It is showing a good crop of gemmae cups (which can release new offshoots when hit by raindrops) and just an odd sexual body (top right but you’ll need the full sized image to spot it), which from its shape suggests this is probably a male plant.
Click the image for larger views on Flickr Common Liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha Pinner, September 2010
This week’s photograph was taken some years ago at Lyme Regis. All along the seafront promenade there are these delightful lamp standards based on ammonites in recognition of the Jurassic Coast. They are unusual, well designed and a rather nice touch. Oh and they are almost always adorned with seagulls.
Click on the image for a larger view on Flickr Lamp 2 (with Seagull) Lyme Regis; July 2006
This weeks photo is of our friends John and Midori, who we met for lunch when they were passing through London last week. They are on one of their rare visits to this country to see John’s family. John, originally from Norwich, has been teaching English at universities in Japan for around 30 years; he was one of the founder members of the Anthony Powell Society. John is also a world expert on the traditional music of Okinawa — he blogs at The Power of Okinawa — so when he semi-retired a few years ago it was natural that they moved to Okinawa, the semi-tropical Ryukyu Islands at the very southern extremity of Japan. They were living in Kobe at the time of the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995.
This week’s photograph is one from my perambulations of the Romney March Churches in Kent. Well actually this one, East Guldeford just outside Rye, is just in East Sussex; it is the only of the of the Romney March churches which isn’t in Kent and the only one not in the Diocese of Canterbury.
These are the Arms of Richard de Guldeford (died circa 1507) patron of St Mary’s, East Guldeford. They are on the north wall of the church and may be contemporary with the building of the church (consecrated 1505). The photo was taken during the Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust members’ tour in July 2010.
Click the image for larger views on Flickr Guldeford Arms East Guldeford, July 2010
