I snapped this while doing a bit of shopping on the King’s Road. I liked the colorful mix of houses on this sidestreet.
As you can see, the weather was a bit more fitting of stereotype today.
Meanwhile, I’m finding that my camera bag makes for a reasonable purse; although, a third hand to hold my shopping while I fuss with the camera would be even better.
Photo…or lack thereof, really.
Despite leaving the memory card out near my wallet, I managed to leave my apartment today without it.
I’ll be acquiring an extra over the weekend to further reduce the odds of this turning into a blog about cat pictures.
Today I managed a brief escape from work around three and headed over towards Smithfield Market, where I snapped these two phone booths.
Smithfield is still a working meat market; however, by this time in the afternoon, business is done for the day.
The English Phone booths were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, who also designed the hospital adjacent to my house.
On that note, it’s past my bedtime, but I’ll elaborate more on Smithfield & Scott another day.
Taking a picture every day generally means I need to leave my office during the precious daylight hours, so this morning, I wandered around nearby St. John’s Lane in Clerkenwell.
This picture is from inside of the archway of St. John’s Gate. This 16th Century Gatehouse once formed the entry to the Priory of Clerkenwell, but now hosts a museum dedicated to the site’s history.
I hadn’t expected to pick up neighborhood history while doing this, but that seems an inevitability. The Wikipedia links above share an interesting story.
Today I dragged my camera around all day, only to find that I was without a memory card. Oops.
I’ve been in a bit of a funk lately, and my husband bought me a very tiny nazar as a surprise to scare off my bad mood and any potential evil eyes.
I decided to take a picture of it!
From this experience, I have learned that trying to take large pictures of very tiny things is quite difficult!
After a failed attempt at another cat picture this evening, I went outside.
This is a road not too far from my apartment.
Our cat, Oscar, has diabetes.
Much like a diabetic person, a diabetic cat will consume lots of water. After waking to find him drinking from our water glasses at night several times, we upgraded him to this dog-sized water bowl.
I expected that he’d be a willing subject, given a fresh bowl of water, but much to my surprise, he just sat there looking surly.
I’m not as happy with this picture as I’d like, but I can try again tomorrow, as Monday won’t be a bring the camera out day.
(We’ve also put a lot of pictures of cats that resemble him around his water bowl, but perhaps that’s a tale for another day. It’s only one picture and one big magnet, in our defense.)
This is my favorite picture from today.
While Richmond Park is incredibly scenic, it pales in comparison to the event documented here.
After more than five years of trying to convince my dear husband, Darren, to ride a bicycle, he finally relented and did it.
(You can see some of the Park’s many deer on the right.)
Today was one of those days where taking the camera wasn’t really an option, so I’ve decided to relive my day off by sharing another photo from Hyde Park on the 8th.
The trees have just started to turn, but not so much in this picture.
…and some people think it always rains in London!
My new plan is to try to share a picture every day for at least until the end of this month, reason being that I keep relegating my DSLR to days off and vacations, and there’s no reason for that.
The picture just has to be something I like, and I have to post something, even if it’s awful.
The only exception days will be those where dragging around an SLR wasn’t a reasonable option, such as Mondays. These days will be established in advance. On those days, I might use a picture taken within the last few days.
This is a picture of the Eastern edge of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, here in London, where I spent a bit of a very glorious day off from work.
The Serpentine is named as much because it actually looks like a snake from above.
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