Doddington Place has been the home of the Oldfield family for more than a century. The many-gabled brick house was designed by the Victorian architect Charles Brown Trollope and built around 1870 for Sir John Croft of the port and sherry family.

A Tree and its bench...

Late afternoon on the hottest day, 20 July...

"Ring them bells for the blind and the deaf. Ring them bells for all of us who are left. Ring them bells for the chosen few who will judge the many when the game is through..." Bob Dylan. Ring Them Bells

An afternoon visit to St James' church in Piccadilly.

The Süleymaniye Mosque is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Third Hill of Istanbul. The mosque was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent and designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. An inscription specifies the foundation date as 1550 and the inauguration date as 1557. Behind the qibla wall of the mosque is an enclosure containing the separate octagonal mausoleums of Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana).

Returning to that walk between Kingsdown to Dover with the sea on the left and the land on the right...

Once again, no large cameras and only the iPhone. Sometimes one is not in a photographic mind space and one no longer has 'a vision'...

The last of a triptych project: Time Machine

I have been collecting these lilies on my sitting room floor... If only I could keep it as a sculpture! The title comes from Tennessee Williams' "Street Car Named Desire"