pics 1 - London, Canterbury, Kew Gardens

the college is decorated everywhere w/ large abstracts drawing from scientific notation- and the flowers are great

I've seen this car parked & plugged in every morning after breakfast.  My wonder is not that it is plugged in, but HOW did it get to the parking space.  As you can see - the clearances are not great...

remember the comment about backpack groups - here is the orange

and the red/gray group (a smaller tribe)

and florescent yellow - from Italy

station art on the way to Cambridge

!!! AND IT'S SOCK TOPS !!!

Canterbury still has it's town wall

and it's made of flint !! Chalk forms with flint - so that sparking stone that was so prized in the American frontier (per all my stories growing up) is wall material here - no shortage at all..

and beautifully done

even park benches are lovely (and totally intact)

fountain - in the park between station and cathedral

left-over tower - as you can see - just part of the town fabric for the folks who live there -- it's the tourists who look - like the tourists to NYC who look up at the buildings

this is what the tower is left over from...

gate to the cathedral close --

with Christ front and center (natch)

...and going through the gate, can you imagine the first look at the cathedral?  I've been here before, and still am wowed, partly because with the length and height of the entrance gate, you don't see any of the cathedral as you approach.  

one long shot inside --

time travel back to London and a shot of St. Paul's Cathedral from the Milennium bridge approach.

gig group w/ little english - and playing all from memory - and not only taco bell.

think this is a really pretty bridge - shot taken from the bar on the top floor of Tate Modern.

better shot that shows how St. Paul's lines up w/ Milennium Bridge and Tate Modern. 

another jump - to Kew Gardens, and the money shot for the gardens.

marigolds - for my info - and want to do some of these colors next year.

my 'art' shot.   

and how English !! She is in a sundress and sandals, and is wearing pearls !!  Long live the British Empire...

and I am me....

and becoming very fond of sunflowers....