Late Autum colour. It is nearly November but warm Autumn has kept many things going. Still plenty to eat and cut flowers to cut.

Salvia has been great

grasses and path

Winter pansies

Salvias and fuschias

Rat proof compost bins

Penstemons

Courgettes will probably make it into November!

A wonderfully gharish Antirrhinum – wonderfully out of place for late October

winter salads

The veg beds

The big conifer dominating the east side of the garden.

some carrots

New compost bins and some brussel sprouts (disappointingly small)

Autumn raspberries have been good.

Front garden, fuschi looks the best it has been. Begonias I started in Feb are finally flowering.

Despite cold and rain, the lettuce in raised beds looks quite good. There is mustard, spinach, lettuce and lamb’s lettuce. It looks colourful. The lettuce as sown in September, which is quite late. I was picking a lot until late November when growth really slows down. It’s not really growing much at moment, though I could take a few leaves for Christmas dinner.

Garden.

I rather spoil the shot by getting in the way of the sun.

Yesterday was a wet, cold and dark day. Too wet for cycling so I took a short walk to Florence Park. There is a little spring blossom on this tree, but the white bark of the Silver birches stands out more.

Populars and railings.

The architecture of trees is nice.

Running home to escape the rain.

2020 is on its way out!

Double rainbow.

Double rainbow over Oxford

garden

Garden

Garden

The path to the summit in Crete mountains.

Crete

Sunset in Sardinia.

Sardinia

MeditationThe Virgin Mary

Crete

Orange orchard near the hotel.

The mountains surrounding plain in Crete.

It was warm and snowy path

Near sea for early morning race in Crete.

Snowy mountains.

Plateau.

A bay in Crete. Everything was closed for winter, but it was nice and quiet.

The thin guy is me.

The sea.The sea

View from bedroom window. Rainbow over Oxford.

Rainbow over Annam Brahma, Jamaica, Queens, New York.

Paris.Paris garden in autumn.

“There is only one perfect road. And that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you.”

Sri Chinmoy

During two-mile race, Joy weekend, Paris.

St Paul’s Chapel, Colombia University, New York. In the 1970s, Sri Chinmoy offered many public meditations here. In October 2019, we had Peace Concert, which was very nice.

Paris. 

View from Menston.

View towards Bolton Abbey, West Yorkshire.

I spent two weeks in Bali. It was very nice. This was the hotel grounds.

Some lotus flowers.

Pond

hotel grounds

I was a very feeble tourist. Apart from the airport, the furthest I made it from the hotel and beach was a 1km walk. This chap was cycling so slowly I could just about keep up by walking very fast. There are not many bicycles in Bali. There are many mopeds which go relatively slowly but it is very different standards of driving. It is more ‘free-form’ driving.

Sunset over hotel.

Outside the function room.

Big pond.

Start of a race inside the hotel grounds.

I’m not very good at taking photos of people. The only one I really managed to take was Bipin.

Sunrise in Portugal

Sunrise in Portugal.

Sea and beach.

View from cable car

View from cable car

Madeira – Sri Chinmoy Peace Blossom

Rock in the sea

View from boat.

Windsurfer.

Early morning race

Merton College fields autumn 2018

Merton College fields autumn 2018

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Merton in mid-winter

Merton College in mid winter

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