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| Doesn't this look like what you picture a London shop would look like? Art supplies |
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| This cat is almost always out front on the lawn. Can't make out the sex. I feed him tuna. |
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| There he is again from a front view. I'm grateful. |
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| Did I post this twice? I thought this looked like my fantasy of a London shop. It's an artist's supply shop. |
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| Tower of London from across the street. |
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| An axe and chopping block from executions at the Tower of London |
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| Couldn't resist this shot. Me reflected in the back of the menu shown outside. |
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| Ditto. Having fun. |
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| More clowning around. |
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| Happened on this restaurant and noticed thru the window that banner says this is the oldest church in London. Not time to go in, alas. |
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| Inside a tower in Tower of London. Where prisoners were kept including Sir Thomas More, a saint. |
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| View of the Tower Bridge from the prisoners' (not the official name) tower in Tower of London |
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| One of the photos I took of carvings made by prisoners in the tower at Tower of London. Fascinating. |
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| Site of the beheadings of aristocrats at Tower of London. Includes Anne Boleyn and Lady Catherine Grey, wives of Henry VIII |
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| White tower at Tower of London. Palace begun by William the Conqueror in 1066. This is not what we were told on the tour. This castle which was inhabited by the king was built to impress the people. They, incidentally or not, lived in simple mud huts at the time. Imagine how this looked to them. And positioned on a hill next to the Thames for all to see. |
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| I need to look it up. This row of buildings was built by a king for his wife (Henry VIII?) Very cool. Inside the Tower of London. |
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| Our Beefeater guide. Very amusing |
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| WWI memorial at Tower of London. Each ceramic poppy represents the death of one Allied military personnel in WWI |
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| Tower of London as seen from the street. Poppies are in the moat. |
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| Tower of London and WWI memorial |
Looking back, these are some of my favorite pictures! Except for the front door of your flat, the garden gate, and the flowers in your garden, that is! I absolutely thought that I was looking at a field of flowers! How moving that they are a permanent memorial to those lost in WWI. The Tower of London doesn't look like a tower or anything I imagined it to be. Such a huge complex of structures! I wonder what the significance of the carving you so well captured was?
ReplyDeleteIt still looks like a magnificent field of flowers to me!
Were you tempted to go into the art supply shop? The colors draw me in! I'd have to peek!
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