earlybirder: April 2014

Harrow, Millie's cookies, Northwick Park, Sudbury, Wembley, Coffee, Stonebridge Park, North Circular, Japanese knotweed, Park Royal, Central Middlesex, Grand Union, Harlesden, ginger beer, Willesden, shop with life-size resin T-rex skull (£8000), Kensal Rise, Cemetery, Maida Hill, Maida Vale, Paddington, Marylebone Town Hall, long shadows, Euston Road, Russell Square, Great Ormond Street. For you Devaanshi...from all of us.

Look at the sky, listen to the birds and smell the flowers....

Why the 'Earlybirder'? As a boy I slept in a room overlooking gardens and an old orchard. I preferred to sleep with the curtains open and as it became light in the morning I would get up and, armed with a heavy old pair of binoculars and an even heavier and older bicycle, head out to explore the Welsh Harp, Ruislip Lido or Cassiobury Park.

I like the exclusivity of early mornings. It's the best part of the day...the air is often still and fresh and the birdsong is not masked by the hum of lawnmowers or background hiss of traffic. The sun of a new day sheds a uniquely bright light which gives everything, from flowers to feathers, a lustre which fades in the less-forgiving light later in the day. The world belongs to you and you feel so alive. While others sleep the rest of the world awakes. To witness a sunrise, focus on the incredible richness of a nightingale's song or watch a newly-hatched mandarin chick dry in the warmth of a pool of morning sun is to experience life at its purest. Bed can wait...

earlybirder

Thursday, 17 April 2014

Meet The Fockers - Ass Hole

MEET THE PARENTS Pool Scene

Meet the Parents

Meet the Parents - Milking a Cat

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Walking from Harrow to Great Ormond Street Hospital to raise funds for the hospital and in memory of Devaanshi....a photographic record 15th April 2014

Sunday, 13 April 2014

Blooming Spring........

Link to WWT - Welney