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