In spite of the bombardment the Victoria and Albert Museum stayed open to the public during most of the second world war.
The damage from shrapnel remains to this day.
Shrapnel
Statues in the court
GALILEO holding two lenses.
ISAAC NEWTON holding a book in his left hand and contemplating an apple at his feet.
CHARLES DARWIN thinking.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Immaculate models
Houses of Parliament Architecture Hall, Victoria and Albert Museum , London.
Festival of Britain (1951) with giant Architecture Hall, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Stone cloth
Cloth cut in marble
Victoria and Albert Museum London
Berg (1964)
Absorbing exhibition at the University of Brighton Marine Parade Gallery based on the novel Berg by Ann Quin (1964)
The first set depicts the beginning of the novel.
The second set depicts the end of the novel.
It is interesting to return to the beginning after you have been to the end.
Fisherman Bumstead and the great white heron…
Fishing Museum Hastings, East Sussex
The clumps
Two of the three clumps by the lake at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. The garden was designed and planted in the 1760’s by Capability Brown.
Butterfly
Incidental garden
A small street garden blooming in mid November.
the earth’s monstrosities
In 77 A.D. the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder called the artichoke “one of the earth’s monstrosities.”
In 2014 A. D. at Rousham Park the flowers appear serenely beautiful.
Rosie Chard 