Tuesday was such a perfect late autumn day that I decided to down tools and go on an expedition. Where to go? Somewhere which would offer both nice walking and something interesting to see. Greenwich seemed a no brainer. In fact, Greenwich offers so much to see that I could have been there a week …
Hampstead Heath
Kenwood gears up for Christmas
No, this doesn’t look very like Christmas, does it. The last flurry of autumn colour on the Kenwood lawns soon to host a serious Christmas show. But all around the house, preparations are well under way. Up by the Stable block, a huge lorry park has been created. At the entrance to house massive wooden …
Early November on the heath
Although the colour has not been at its best this year, with the sun behind them some of the trees can still look pretty spectacular. This one above is in the glade just north of Parliament Hill. And below is the ginko that grows outside the window of the Golders Hill Park café. And this…… …
Bracken and ferns in Highgate cemeteries
Did you know that although they look almost identical brackens and ferns are very different plants? In my ignorance, I didn’t, until I showed up for last week’s gardening session at Highgate cemeteries. This is a fern, all of its leafy stems shooting up, fountain-like, from a central bole. While ferns do spread they are …
Late Saturday afternoon at Kenwood
A late afternoon walk across Kenwood and I caught the sun just as it was going down – first over Kenwood’s West Meadow and then from the top of Henry Moore’s reclining figure’s slope. Although the trees look good in the evening sun, the autumn colour is not that great – certainly not compared to …
The six pine trees
Anyone who knows the heath will know the group of trees that dominate the high point that you reach having climbed the slope up from the mixed bathing pond and find yourself looking down towards the boating pond and the men’s bathing pond. I don’t think there are actually six of them and they are …