Okay, I probably wasn’t supposed to take this pic, although I have been to London a few times, I have never been to Windsor, and the private gardens are pretty freaking amazing. I didn’t trespass. I just leaned really, really, far over the wall to get this pic. Gorgeous huh? You can see why foxes choose to live in certain London parks. They are smart as foxes!
London is of course, old, historic, beautiful. It has gravitas.
But it is also for the birds,
animals, gardens,
and the people who care for them!
Like the birdkeeper and his cottage. A refuge for the birdman and his exotic birds was first established in 1612.
I love a town that established a place for a keeper of the birds 400 hundred years ago.
Plus, there are all the flowers.
Which is the way to London Town?
To see the king in his golden crown.
One foot up and one foot down.
To see the Queen in her silken gown.
(Source: Unknown Nursery Rhyme).
Cheers to you from lovely London Town~
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Grand and regal photos full of color and history!
I was just a tad nervous about doing justice to such an historical city, so thank you Dor!
Cindy, these are lovely. I would have jumped that wall to get a great garden shot! 😉 (In my fantasies, anyway …). What I most remember of London is yes, gravitas – well put – but also the flowers! The gardens! The vibrant grass in contrast to those colorful plantings. A gardener’s dream, for sure. Enjoy!
Yes, I suppose almost every Brit must have some love of gardens. Everyone seems to have a lovingly cared for garden. There is so much revealed by those who tend gardens with love. Gardeners the world over rock and I love just walking by and seeing their gardens~
Thanks Cindy for finding these oases of beauty in a City like London where people forget beauty is to be found. Love the Windsor shot.
xxx Huge Hugs xxx
Thank you David. Beauty is everywhere, it is just a matter of finding it!
These pictures are so lovely…so beautiful… Make me feel i want to go to England… and London… Thanks! 🙂
Awwww, your comment makes me glad I posted! Thank you & cheers too~
How you’ve managed to find these sanctuaries in a bustling, crowded city is amazing. Such lush places!
Awwww thank you! London has lots of such sanctuaries. One just needs to leave the commercial areas and head towards the trees! <3
Amazing walk, ecellent captured… 🙂
So kind & so appreicated!
Gorgeous photos as usual Cindy. A lovely tour of London Town.
Alison
Glad you came along my friend~
Woooowwww Beautiful Pictures, thank you very much Cindy….💗💗💗
Thank you more for the appreciation!
What a beautiful green !
That is just what Britain is to me. Green. Especially coming from California!
Lovely, C. Will be sharing these shots w/ T who studied European geography and history last yr. =)
Wonderful! I hope it is enjoyed & cheers to you!
Wonderful!!! …. 🙂
Merci beaucoup!
You are welcome…. 🙂
Amazing. I would love to live in that cottage and tend to the birds — that would be wonderful indeed. Thanks for your daring-do. 😀
Yes, I have to say for me, that would be a wonderful life!
Thanks for bring back some memories of years ago.
I am so glad I did! <3
Hi Cindy, glad you are having so much fun in London. I used to work just around the corner from St James’ Park, so would walk around it in my lunch hour, marvelling at how lucky I was to have it on my doorstep. It is a wonderful place!! Cheers to you 🙂
It is a wonderful place and you were wise to spend your lunch time there, but then, you are wise my friend! <3
London is great and beautiful for sure!
We are in accord! 🙂
It is city where I would like to come back. 🙂
I hope you do!
I’d been told how grey and gloomy the weather is there but your photos show off London’s gorgeous, green side… with beautiful birds and blooms to complement the scenery! I’m putting London down on my list of must-see places. Thank you Cindy! <3 ~Lynn
Oh good! You certainly will be glad you visited. I took all these photos on fairly gray days, but the parks, flowers, trees and birds just pop out at you with color and joy. You will love London Lynn, and there are so many varied things to do~
Thank you Cindy for an amazing tour💜😀 I love the birdkeppers abode and the heartfelt tradition…the picture of Windsor is awesome also…Cheers😊
Very pleased you enjoyed the same things I did. Thank you!
I had just seen a really cool article about the bird keepers there in London and the story of the swans and such so it was so cool to see your pictures and read more on this very awesome tenure….thanks cindy
That is synchronicity! They even had crocodiles in the canals in St James Park at one time long ago!
beautiful Cindy!
Mil grazi~
Gorgeous! Makes me wish I were there!
That is why I love looking at other people’s photos so much. It takes me traveling while sitting in my chair!
Hopefully someone was holding your ankles when you were leaning really, really far. 🙂 Lovely images.
Laughing, hopefully no one saw! 😉
Hard to fathom living in a place that old, Cindy, but what a view! Thank you for sharing that stunning view of the garden!!
Pretty amazing wasn’t it. I would so love to go sit and relax on one of those benches. They seemed lonely and beckoning……
T enjoyed the post. =) I want to show him different parts of the world.
Wonderful. I can tell you how much you enjoy your son. Those days are such happy memories for me! <3
These are beautiful pictures…
Awww, so kind~
Cheers and what a wonderful garden view – glad you didn’t fall over from leaning too far to capture that great pic.
That would have been beyond embarrassing. I’m just grateful that as far as I know at least no one took my picture doing it. That would have been mortifying! 😉
I know…and if that was caught on tape!!!
Cindy, your photos are absolutely gorgeous and captivating! Thank you so much for sharing. You have a lovely blog. Warm greetings from Montreal, Canada. 🙂
Your kindness is very much appreciated! I miss Montreal and the incredible food. It is another captivating city!
I recently went to Windsor, and my pictures are nowhere near as beautiful as your. Great work! You’ve captured the city’s beauty so well, I can nearly smell the flowers!
Awwww, such kindness. Thank you. We are hardest on our own work. I know I am. I am sure your photos are lovely. Thank you though and cheers to you~
Yes, it is so easy to forget how green and filled with wildlife London can be…the bird keeper’s cottage especially looks divine. I also love that you “just leaned really, really far over the wall” to get that first photo!
Right, I would never actually trespass…… 😉
Amazing photos Cindy 😀
Merci beaucoup mon ami!
I’m so happy you found things of beauty in our great (and often dirty) but wonderful city.
I found sooooo much more. It is a question of how much to include. London has beauty around every corner…..
A huge beautiful place.
Yes!
Vast a rchitecture, It would be interesting to watch how they cut the grass.
London is beautiful. The British do gardens beautifully.
They do, and I didn’t even make it to the country on this trip which is a shame!
We have visited Cheltenham, Tewksbury, Bath and Stonehenge, of course. Such a beautiful place.
Bee-yut-ee-ful places! I spend a summer in high school and after grad school in Britain and Scotland. The countryside is sublime. I bet you want to go back……
Exquisite!! I would love to go!!
I hope you do!
Great photos, as usual Cindy. Lovely tour of Windsor Castle!
It really was a beautiful place~
Lush and beautiful, Cindy. The ducks are great, too.
Aren’t they beauties! Lucky duckies to live in St. James Park~
Super Pics, Love it ! I have not been there either…should really go there!
I know you will love it! <3
Loved the sneak peak of Windsor gardens and of course you would be drawn to that bird keepers cottage. Looks like you had good weather too Cindy, always a bonus in England…
Yes! We did, not bright sunshine, but no rain either. It certainly helps for pics. Do you miss Britain Pauline?
I left Britain when I was 18 and must say I bonded more with New Zealand as I had my children there and lived there for nearly 40 years, creating many very happy memories. Now, having lived in Australia for 17 years I have no desire to go back to UK. The twice I went back I felt more like a tourist, thoroughly enjoyed my time over there, but was very pleased to get back “home”…
Nice to see a flavour of London/UK from a visitor’s point of view. Makes on look again. http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/confused/confused0001.gif
Oh my gosh! Thank you Graham. You know I am emoticon deficient. These are awesome. Going to play with them now~
Good stuff. Place an URL gif on it’s own line to get it to render properly.
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Laughing, will that dog burn off calories for me??????
Gorgeous photos and now I can’t wait to go back!
Yes, I have the same reaction when I look at travel blogs! Places to go, people to see!
I sure enjoyed this London adventure, Cindy. It is striking to see so much rich, green flora. All of your photos are gorgeous, but I especially like the bearded iris.
Awww, thanks Athena. I love the blues you get in Europe from all the nitrogen rich soil~
Do you think they have trouble hiring a lawn service? 🙂 I lived and worked in England for a few years, 6 months of it in London. I ran with a running club (sloggers but we put one foot in front of the other). Sundays we would jog in Hyde Park. England is so green and their gardens are so beautiful.
Yep, it is beautiful. I remember seeing it as a child from the plane, coming from SoCal I couldn’t believe the greeness! Everytime I return to home from the UK, I am struck by the drought conditions I live in, and that was before THE BIG DROUGHT!
Wow, wonderful and beautiful, Thank you for sharing this!!!!! You made my day!
Awww, your comment made mine!
Thanks!
¡Qué bonita ciudad es Londres! Las fotos, tan verdes, traen un frescor que se agradece para superar los calores que nos agobian por Madrid 😉
Madrid es tan hermosa! Vamos a volver a España en 2016. Espero que el tiempo se enfría!
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and her photography in London, showing the city it is best light and colours.
Awwww, you are so very kind my friend! Thank you & cheers~
Beautiful, beautiful colors. Makes me want to go back to London!
Well, I hope you do go then & cheers to you!
Terrific, very intimate perspectives of this touristy city. Thanks for showing these!
Thank you more for taking the time to appreciate them!
Anytime!
Hi Cindy! Wow! These pictures took my breath away. That English garden and the cottage––beautiful! 😀
I love the old world charm too. Thank you my friend & cheers!
Here from Sally’s Smorgasbord.
Such lovely London looks.
Love the London alliteration!
Thanks, Cindy! I’m so in love with alliteration, I should probably marry it!
Well, it will be one of those awkward poly marriages, because I will too! 😉
Did you mean for your photo color scheme to be a rainbow? Red, then orange, then several greens, then blues, then purples… Lovely. Like the way a record album all the songs just fit one into the next.
Oh how lovely, and no I didn’t intend this, but now that your perceptive eyes found it, mine have too. I am so gratified when people see things in my photos that I was not consciously aware of Thank you so much for SEEING and telling! <3
Looks like Dracula palace…. ! 😀
Well that is an unusual perception.
Perhaps it is OPTICAL (confusion). In fact I have never been there,
Germany has far better places such as Gotha.
I liked the special Windsor garden, Cindy. The sweet bird keepers house looks like a fairy tale cottage and beautiful grounds. Always enjoy your photos of animals and flowers. Like a fantasy dream, hoping someday to explore my Dad’s side of the family from England and Scotland.
I hope you do go explore your heritage Robin, I imagine you will find it fascinating. Thank you my friend for your very kind thoughts~