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| HYDE PARK |
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| This is a shot of the Italian gardens at the north tip of the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park. There are four fountains and a monument to someone in Latin, I think. In the photo right below this one you can see the edge of the Italian Gardens. It ends in a bank over a water fall which flows into the Serpentine. This is where I saw the rat that was as big as my arm. It really kind-of reminded me of my brothers ferrit, but fatter. It ran up to me, figured out that it was standing in front of someone, looked at me as if to say "Do you mind getting out of my way" and then took off the way it had come. Some idiot tourists ran up to where it had vanished and tried to coax it out with bits of food. :::shakes head::: I guess the "Black Plague" really doesn't have much meaning for them. |
| This is the Peter Pan statue just south east of the Italian Gardens. It's the same statue Robin Wiliams woke up underneath at the end of the move "Hook." It was a bit of a pilgramage for me, since I'm never going to grow up. Never, ever, ever! I took several photo's with my zoom lense, but they came out to dark. Always use Kodak film. Always! You can't really see it, but around the base of the statue are characters from the story, like Captain Hook, Wendey, John, Tinker bell and assorted Faeries, mermaids and lost boys. |
| This is Serpentine Bridge, over which cars drive and under which people walk. |
| Some geese on the lake. There were ducks and geese and all kinds of birds around. People come to the park and feed them, much the same way they will go to Trafalgar square and feed the piegons. |
| I have no idea what this is, but I probably thought it was pretty. |
| This is a trellis in the Rose Gardens. In the summer time, roses will grow on the vines suspended here. |
| This is a wide angle shot of a rock garden just north of the rose garden. I thought it was pretty too. |