Montpelier in Knightsbridge

Monday, April 27, 2020:

Vintage Fiat

A pink Figaro!

Hyde Park

Friday, April 24, 2020:

Hyde Park is 344 acres, flat and with scant sign of buildings, statues or signs.  It's all about the trees!  There are at least 100 different species, the most popular being London Plane, Sweet Chestnut, Common Lime and English Oak. It's a magical urban forest in the west of London.

Two young priests take a stroll along the Serpentine

Serpentine Bridge

Harriet Shelley, first wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley,

drowned in the Serpentine in 1816, pregnant at 21 years old.
His next wife was Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.
Percy drowned at age 29 in Italy.

Who doesn't love a Pomeranian?

The Arch by Henry Moore

An Exquisite Day

Wednesday, April 22:

Scarsdale Tavern on Edwardes Square

Ruins of Holland House Country Estate built in 1605

Largely Destroyed by 1940 Blitz

Mural Depicting Garden Party

At Holland House Estate (now Holland Park) in the 1870s

Tulips in Holland Park

A Rhododendron

One of my favorite flowers

Matilija Poppy

Native to California/Baja Mexico

You lay so still in the sunshine,

So still in that hot sweet hour -

That the timid things of the forest land

Came close; A butterfly lit on your hand, 

Mistaking it for a flower.  

You scarcely breathed in your slumber, 

 So dreamless it was, so deep - 

While the warm air stirred in my veins like wine, 

The air that had blown through a jasmine vine, 

 But you slept - and I let you sleep.

- Radclyffe Hall

Protect the NHS

Stay safe, be strong

St. Mary Abbots Parish Church, Kensington

Kensington Square Garden

One of our favorite French cafes

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T.S. Eliot