London photos: sci-fi greenhouse
The longer I walked around the Barbican Conservatory, the more I began to feel like I was in the greenhouse on a space station…
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London photo: alien plants
More alien-looking plants at the Barbican Conservatory.
London photos: hothouse flowers
Far from just walling in London plant life of, the Barbican Conservatory is full of alien-seeming organisms that could never survive in the city outside.
London photos: peaceful conservatory
The longer I walked around the Barbican Conservatory, the more at peace I started to feel in this serene pocket of jungle in the middle of London.
London photo: concrete and steel greenhouse
There’s something, well, brutal in the Brutalist concrete and steel of the Barbican Conservatory…
London photo: discovering the Barbican conservatory
I only just discovered that the Barbican has a conservatory…
London photo: Trafalgar Square, VE70
Unlike on the actual day of Victory in Europe in 1945, no one was in the fountains last Sunday afternoon.
London photo: Admiralty Arch celebrates
Admiralty Arch, at the opposite end of the Mall from Buckingham Palace, festooned with flags to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe.
London photo: royal mucky-mucks
Some anonymous royals — probably Charles and Camilla — motoring along the Mall during Victory in Europe 70th-anniversary celebrations.
London photo: “soldiers” at ease
WWII reenactors in St. James’s Park this past Sunday for VE70 celebrations.
