New York City

Williamsburg Bridge for  a morning  run

Van Gogh Textures

Van Gogh Textures

Hewes Street  Station, Williamsburg

Hewes Street Station, Williamsburg

American Graffiti St Marks Place

St Marks Place, American Graffiti Album Cover, Waiting on a Friend Video

St Marks Place Frankfurter

St Marks Place Frankfurter

Fire Escapes on the Front

Fire Escapes on the Front

Tyres

Whats left when the tyre has been cut out..

School Buses from the High Line

School Buses from the High Line

High Line New section

Installed in the Rail Yards’ Interim Walkway is a new High Line Art commission – a series of abstract sculptures by artist Adrián Villar Rojas. The sculptures themselves are composed partly with seeds, vegetables, and compost from the High Line. Over the course of the yearlong installation, Rojas’s seemingly sturdy sculptures will crumble and sprout new growth, gradually taking on a greater resemblance to the surrounding landscape. this one also contained trainers and other clothing.

MOMA NYC

When Warhol first exhibited Campbell’s Soup Cans, in 1962, each of the thirty-two canvases rested on a shelf mounted on the wall, like groceries in a store. The number of paintings corresponds to the varieties of soup then sold by the Campbell Soup Company. Warhol assigned a different soup variety to each, checking them off on a product list supplied by Campbell once their “portraits” were completed.

Grand Central Station Oyster Bar

Grand Central Station Oyster Bar. The most outstanding Oysters ever!

Early Spring flowers seen on Brighton Seafront 10 March 2014

Image

Euphorbia characias
Glaucous leaves and topped with huge heads of chartreuse-green flowers with bronze ‘eyes’ from March to May. The Edwardian garden designer Gertrude Jekyll described this sun-loving, evergreen shrub as ‘one of the grandest of plants’. found on dry rocky slopes and scrubland, in the med so it is very tolerant of drought

Image

Wall flower. Erysimum cheiri

Image

Red Deadnettle. Lamium purpureum

Image

Viola reichenbachiana

Image

Ceanothus

Image

Euphorbia characias

Image

Ulex europaeus. Gorse

Image

Osteospermum ‘Hopleys’

Spring time blooms at Nymans Gardens, Handcross, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH17 6EB

There were so many flowers out at Nymans today.  It was a beautiful day March 8th 2014, the first warm day of the yearImage

Galanthus Pussy Green Tip. A wild snowdrop  originally from the banks of the Thames

Image

I was surprised to see Rhododendron flowering in early March.

ImageImage

Spring hardy Camellias welcoming the bees

Image

Pulmonaria officinalis

Image

Pulmonaria rubra “Bowles Red”

Image

Helleborus

Image

Crocus

Image

Crocus

Image

Ladybird on a young Monkey Puzzle Tree

Image

Araucaria araucana

Image

Any one know what this is?

Image

Pinus

Image

Cryptomeria japoonica “Monstrosa”

ImageImage

Cephalotaxus harringtonia var. drupacea. Cow’s tail Pine

Image

Is it fire works? Is it cheerleaders pom poms? No its Pinus Hatwegii, Stunning.

Image

Alnus rubra catkins and shoots

ImageImageImageImageImageImage

Winter Aconites under the Preston Twins, Elm trees

Winter Aconites  (Eranthis hyemalis)- what a joy! a glimmer of hope that Spring is around the corner! Taken 22 January 2014

Brighton & Hove has always had a high population of Elm trees  and currently has over 17,000.  The Victorians and Edwardians planted loads of them because of their tolerance to the thin chalk soil and salty winds.

 I pass the The ‘Preston Twins’ in Preston Park are on my walk  to work they are considered  to be the largest and oldest surviving English Elms in Europe. Home  to  the endangered species the White -letter hairstreak butterfly  –  on the decline in areas that have suffered with Elm Disease.

Eranthis hyemalis

Eranthis hyemalis

One of the Preston Twins with a blanket of winter aconite 22 January 2014

One of the Preston Twins with a blanket of winter aconite 22 January 2014