After all the dramatic events of the last 24 hours in Washington – not to mention ever rising COVID figures here in the UK – I thought that what we probably needed was a little peaceful contemplation. So – the Boating Pond (always the most photogenic!) in yesterday’s late afternoon sun. Down at the bottom …
Hampstead Heath
Yellow for cheer – and sorting out the swans
A cold, wet, grey afternoon did little to lift lockdown gloom so I was very happy to have taken this picture two days ago. Only speckles of yellow for now but when spring arrives this whole bush will be washed in sunshine! To be fair to the rain, it did give a polished sheen to …
New Year’s Day – and a swan onrush……..
The sun was shining brightly on New Year’s Day when I ventured down to the Lido near Parliament Hill to meet a friend for a walk. ‘Parliament Hill Fields Lido was opened on 20 August 1938. At a cost of £34,000, it was the most ambitious and expensive of the thirteen lidos built on parkland …
Happy New Year!
Another cold and grey day to start the new year so I thought we would look back to recent sunnier days in the hope that they will project themselves forward into 2021! The Boating Pond a few evenings ago. Beech leaves in Kenwood wood…. The overgrown edges of the Vale of Health pond…. A wonderfully …
Lichen and Laocoon…
It was very cold and grey today on the heath – but one virtue of the near sub zero temperatures is that they had frozen the mud which was therefore a lot easier to walk on. Heading back through the wooded valley that separates Kenwood from the southern part of the heath I found several …
Waterlow Park and Lauderdale House
When Sir Roger Cholmeley founded his Free Grammar School at Highgate in 1565, Roger Martin (afterwards Sir Roger, Lord Mayor in 1557–8), was appointed one of the foundation governors. It was his son Richard Martin, citizen and goldsmith of London, who would appear to have built the first house on the Lauderdale House site in …