Tag: London

If

“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,….”
excerpt from ‘If’- Rudyard Kipling
Melbourne International Flower Show
Human Traffic at Victoria Station
Waiting at Tate Britain
Catherine Palace, Saint Petersburg
Throne Room, Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg
King Charles IV of Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperor
Photo at top of page: Sculpture of Rudyard Kipling, by Steve Andrews, chainsaw sculptor, at Kipling’s Estate, Batemans, East Sussex, now a National Trust property.
Yvette over at the Priorhouse Blog provided the stimulus for this sharing of my favourite poem! (Day 3 of 3)

Shangri-La

“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
   Down to a sunless sea….”
excerpt from Kubla Khan – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Brighton, East Sussex
Cuckmere Haven, East Sussex
Eastbourne, East Sussex
Yvette over at the Priorhouse Blog provided the stimulus for this effort! (Day 2 of 3)