London Fun 1

We left from Newark Airport on the most delightful night.  The air was cool and crisp and the blue sky turned dark slowly with a golden sunset keeping the light from fading completely for a long while.  Everything went very smoothly.  We slept most of the way. 

 

Six and 1/2 hours later we arrived at Heathrow at 10am, local time.  There was a steady light rain falling for the majority of our ride to the Premier Inn County Hall in Central London.  Our location really is great.  With lots to do in the immediate vicinity and easy walking to many sights. 

We put on our rain coats and figured it might be a good time to explore Waterloo Station.

 

 

 

I really liked the lines here...we were sitting on the second level looking out at the trains coming and going.

 

 

 

Eventually the sun came out and we were able to take a nice leisurely walk along the Thames.

 

This guy was doing a little comedic magic show.  When he saw me with my camera he dropped from a stand and posed for me just like this...he was pretty funny.  Ultimately he managed to get someone to give up a cell phone for his trick.  I watched him get that cell phone INSIDE the balloon.   He graciously accepted my US dollar.  The exchange rate is so bad for us here that we pay about $1.60 for one pound.  Still he was happy.

 

I was trying to stay up as long as possible so after a little rest time in our room I came back out for some night shots.

 

 

 

Pearl S Buck International

Took the tour of the newly renovated  Pearl S Buck house yesterday.  What a fascinating display of  how a person can turn a hardship into a legacy.  Simply speaking, a daughter of missionaries was raised in China.  She matured, married, and gave birth to a special needs child who required residential placement outside of the home.  Results of the birth made it impossible for Pearl Buck to give birth again so she adopted children.  From the depths and realities of those life experiences came an award winning and best selling novel, The Good Earth, and an International Adoption Agency.

No photos allowed inside so here are a few from outside.



The Gardens

One of three beautiful archways leading to a  courtyard.

A place to sit and contemplate.

Dont Give Up

I was thinking that there was not enough interest in this blog to keep it going...AND THEN
I decided to think AGAIN...WHY is there little interest I asked myself.....Ill have to give this a lot of thought.

Photography is a funny thing.  Sometimes I download a few hundred images and can only find one or two that make me really want to stop and look.  Other times, it seems like there are only a few deletes.
Time to self assess as to WHY

WHY WHY WHY?

I'm going to try and stay afloat a little longer.

 

I am going to remember to SING.

 

 

Ill try and be patient!

 

 

Thank you Ruth and Kathy for sharing your lives with me.

 

 

It appears as if I have gone GONZO

The back of a bench, Jaffa-Tel Aviv Israel....because I liked the pattern.

 

 

Colored and added my eye ball.

Kind of infatuated with seeing through it all.

 

Cropped it and applied colors with paint bucket.

Then I spun it into a globe.

Sometimes you just have to take a walk in the rain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 It is much better if you can wait for the rain to stop and then walk.  Not too many folks out and about when the weather is like this and I kinda like it that way.  The woods are quiet except for the sounds of the leaves falling and the residual rain dropping through the trees, bouncing from limb to limb, resting for a moment on a yellow leaf before slipping to the forest floor.  The wet leaves barely crunch as you step on them.  Yes, I like a walk in a wet woods.