Winter's improbable gifts

This last beautiful sweet-smelling rose flowered in our garden,
long after the end of autumn.





















Welcome to Carnaby Street Christmas!
I work round the corner from here, in a new job;
quite unexpectedly happy again.

Halloween

Return to Rochester Castle





















In the Great Storm of 1987, several very old trees were uprooted in Rochester. To commemorate the event, the community carved this Monk out of what was left of one of these ancient and beautiful trees. The commitment was to allow the Monk to wear away with time, and to replace him with another - in perpetuity.

He looked very eerie in the sunset on All Hallow's Eve.

The Medway at last light.