Bare branches and dramatic skies: Kew Gardens, London, Feb 2009
Tree Squares: Winter (1)
Kew Gardens
Wordless Wednesday: Kew Gardens Palm House
#WordlessWednesday
Roof Lines
These gorgeous fan-like beams form the roof supports of the Temperate House at Kew Gardens, London. And if that’s not enough, the window panes have lines, too.
Posted as part of October Squares Lines&Squares
Dragons in London
The Great Pagoda at Kew Gardens in London has recently been restored to its 18th century splendour — that’s the wording of the website, by the way. The restoration included the return of 80 dragons on the roofs, each carved from wood and gilded with gold.
Here are two shots of the Pagoda itself, in which you can make out the dragons once you know that’s what the things sticking out from the roofs are!
June Roof: Kew
The underside of a glasshouse roof, Kew Gardens.
I wasn’t sure which roof photo to start off with, but our host Becky kicked off with a Kew Gardens duo so I thought I’d follow her lead. This IS a roof, but the bottom of one. 🙂
June Squares: Roof If you have a photo (or two!) of a roof, join in!
Fountain Series: In a garden (1)
Fountain in a garden in Regent’s Park, London
A new challenge, what fun! This time the focus is on fountains, hosted by Polianthus. This is a great way to share archived photos of fountains, and a great excuse to take new photos (like I need more photos to edit, groan!). For March, the theme is fountains in a garden, and first up from me are two from London.
A wintry fountain, Kew Gardens, London
Bench Bonanza! (2: the bumper edition)
Right, prepare to scroll down and down … herewith, the remaining Bench Series 2015 photos, presented geographically. It’s a mix of incidental benches and focus benches. I’d like to give a huge thanks to Jude to hosting and organising this challenge all year. I now have to train myself to stop photographing every bench I see!
Czech Republic
Franciscan Gardens, Prague (shame about the garbage can!)
France
Along the Corniche, Cannes
Sri Lanka
The promenade, Galle
United Kingdom
London
The British Library
St Dunstan
And a trio from Kew Gardens, one of my favourite London places.
Strange metal mesh kangaroo lurking behind benches at Kew
Wintry sunlight at Kew
Bluebells at Kew
Royal Ascot
Prime viewing benches for the races
Eastbourne Pier
Blue benches lining the pier
I love Eastbourne. I used to walk along the coast, up and down those rolling chalk cliffs with the amazing views out to sea.
Somewhere in Wales
I don’t mean to be cryptic about the location, I just forget where this is!
A drizzly day in Wales, and the remains of a church.
Stratford
I don’t remember the name of my hotel, but it had this lovely grotto out back.
Grotto, bench and wine glass
United States
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Benches on the street
Outside the New Mexico Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Native Art
Lamy, New Mexico
Never heard of Lamy? Me neither. But I spent a few hot hours at its train station, waiting for a train whose arrival time became later and later …
Waiting room, Lamy Amtrak station
Williams Junction, Arizona
Another place you may never have heard of — unless you’ve taken the train to the Grand Canyon.
A marvellous use for old train parts!
Grand Canyon Village
El Tovar Hotel
A bench made from a log. I did not try this one for comfort, I admit.
near New Orleans
This is Oak Alley Plantation, well worth a visit if you’re in the area.
Oak Alley Plantation
And that, you’ll be relieved to learn if you’ve made it this far down the page, is the end of the Bumper Bench Bonanza. “Thank you” to everyone who has visited these posts over the past year!
Pics by Kaz 