London, 2015: The Tower Bridge II

"Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew -

(Twenty bridges or twenty-two) -

Wanted to know what the river knew,

For they were young, and the Thames was old,

And this is the tale that the river told (...)."

Rudyard Kipling

MySpot: My Red Stripes

"White is not a mere absence of color; 

it is a shining and affirmative thing, 

as fierce as red, 

as definite as black."

G.K. Chesterton

The Secret Rose Garden

"A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring."

William Carlos Williams

MySpot: It Was June

 

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, 

just as things grow in fast movies, 

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

London, 2015: Buckingham Palace

"We are in Buckingham Palace, 

the very heart of the British nation. 

Sherlock Holmes, put your trousers on!"

Sherlock Holmes

London, 2015: St Paul's Cathedral

"Sir Christopher Wren

Said, 'I am going to dine with some men.

If anyone calls

Say I am designing St. Paul's.' "

Edmund Clerihew Bentley