Living outside the UK for many years, a question I often got asked is “What’s the best thing about living in Barcelona, Milan, Tokyo ………….?”
One of the best things about living in London – home during my schooldays and a fair few other days – is the parks. A recent visit south confirmed this when I sought refuge from the heat in a park I once played in but which is now a landscape of natural meadows, a community vegetable garden, rose garden, water features and an elegant restaurant and art gallery.
Charles Leadbeater wrote “Beaches are a model civic space: tolerant, playful, self-regulating.” I think parks also qualify – shared by all manner of us, absorbing the claims staked by each group or individual – to a stretch of grass, a bench in the shade, a viewpoint.
The light was bright to dazzling and I was without filters but I ‘salvaged’ a few shots…..
