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…… …
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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 …
Digging up the heath – and the cemeteries!
One of my ambitions when I moved up to Highgate was to sign myself up to work on the heath with the volunteer gardeners and bramble hackers/sapling puller-outers, Heath Hands. But no sooner had I moved in than lockdown happened and all volunteer recruitment came to a grinding halt. So I had to make do …
Summer’s last fling
As I look out on the torrential rain this morning, last week’s two days of summer seem a very long time a go. Anyhow, proof that they did exist, around the boating pond at least. But even then that grey cloud was already hovering. Anyhow, I also made the best of the two days and, …
All the fun of the fair..
Hampstead Heath has always been a holiday spot for Londoners. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries grander folk built large houses in rolling estates to which to retire in the summer months while poorer folk made the hour’s walk up from the city to picnic on the open heath. Entertainers abounded, as did complaints about …