Fading letters on a wall:
Memories evoked
Of times long ago
Picture taken in the midst of the area of London where the annual Notting Hill Carnival takes place
Writing on the wall
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Where two countries kiss
Steep cliffs encroaching
The stream gathers speed
The Iron Gates loom ahead
The Iron Gates is a narrow defile or gorge through which the River Danube flows. One side of this attractively impressive canyon is formed by Romania and the other by Serbia. At one point, the two countries come so close to each other that they seem as though they are kissing. Where they come closest, there is a hydroelectric dam that was built during the Communist era.
My picture was taken from the Serbian shore in 1990, when Serbia was still part of Yugoslavia.
A picture is worth a thousand words
Worth a thousand words,
A mere image
Can express so much so quickly
Climate change
High above the clouds
A climate protester flies,
Changing the climate
This was inspired by an article in the Daily Mail newspaper (see: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6938095/Dame-Emma-jets-5-400-miles-green-is.html), which reported:
“Emma Thompson arrived at Marble Arch yesterday afternoon to support climate change protesters and urged others to join their numbers.
What she might not have mentioned to them is that she had just flown back to Heathrow Airport from Los Angeles the day before.”
A carved Crusader
A life no longer,
Remember’d in timber:
Farewell, Crusader knight
14th century wooden effigy in church at Paulerspury in Northamptonshire, England
For more information about this rare mediaeval carving, see: History of Paulerspury
website from which this information was extracted:
“Under the arcade between the chancel and the north chapel, on a freestone tomb panelled with cusped ogee blind tracery enclosing shields, are wooden effigies of a lady (c. 1340) and an armoured man (c. 1346-9), now placed side by side but not necessarily originally associated with each other. The male figure may represent Sir Robert de Paveley. The monument was restored by Frederick H. Crossley of Chester in 1920, following a report on its condition by the S.P.A.B. in 1915“
Washing
Women washing bowls
In water flowing past:
Peace reigns in Kerala
Photo taken near Alleppey, Kerala, India
Stylish times
The exciting future,
Era of liners:
Three cheers for art deco
Photo taken in High Street Kensington, London (UK)
Parrots
Feathers fluttering.
Our heads below:
Welcome to Kensington Gardens!
Archways
Arch-es of brickwork,
Tracks beneath and air above:
London’s old Circle Line
Bayswater station
Shine
Lamps, articulat-ed,
Shine variously
On diverse writers’ desks
Photo taken at Design Museum in Kensington, London
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