Pix Picks

Posted on January 11th, 2010 in Arts/Literature, Family, Nature, Travel by Harrumpher

I’m not huge on snapshots (my digital camera does make pretend shutter noises), but we had a jolly time in and around London. I’ll post some artsy shots and some family ones.

A few (click for larger view at my PhotoBucket) in the former category include:
England,Sussex,beach,cabana

A detail from a cabana at Beachy Head on the channel.

England,Virginia Water,London,stone

Decorative stone ball from Virginia Water’s former insane asylum.

England,Susswex,Seven Sisters,ice,stream

The tidal streams and pools in Seven Sisters park, Sussex, had fragile ice.

England,winter,frost

A lot of what the Brits call frosties was in evidence this trip.
England,Susswex,Seven Sisters,tree,wind

Tree at Seven Sisters County Park, Sussex, trained by English Channel winds.

England,Winchester,Jane Austen,door

Understated Christmas decoration on Jane Austen’s door, Winchester.

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  1. Robin Edgar said,

    on January 11th, 2010 at 11:13 am

    Nice “snapshots” for some inexplicable reason I have an affinity for that decorative stone ball from Virginia Water’s former insane asylum and the rather long shadow it casts. ;-) .

  2. Harrumpher said,

    on January 11th, 2010 at 1:05 pm

    Thanks. I took several of those ball pictures. My sons didn’t try but talked about picking them up. They are inexplicably intriguing.

    Inside, the walls are painted with gargoyle-style beasties. The local joke is that if inmates were not insane going in, they would be after a stay. It closed after a massive fire in the 1950s, but has been rehabbed as condos. They left the monsters on the lobby and stair walls.

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