Photography
Television Centre, that was the great sprawling powerhouse of BBC television, newly revealed. This view has just become public now that the extension to Westfield Shepherd Bush shopping centre has opened its doors and the cranes that have been converting the broadcasting centre have done their work and left. Note the demolition of the East Tower and Design Building and the additional floors above Stage 5. White City tube station in the foreground (Hammersmith and City Line. Selections from a stitched panorama.
This is not how things are meant to be in Marseille ever, let alone on the first day of Spring, the day of the vernal equinox. And the talk in the boulangerie as I bought my croissants this morning was that his morning’s is the third fall of snow in Marseille this winter. That’s climate change.
Garden birds in a morning blizzard after a freezing night where the air temperature stayed at -3.9°C.
Marseille’s idealistic Parc of the 26 Centuries, celebrating the city’s history through three millennia, contrasted with the reality of Marseille traffic: scooters weaving round cars and all waiting for the off at the lights at Cours Honoré-d’Estienne-d’Orves.
The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow,
And what will poor robin do then, poor thing?
anon, 16th Century
This robin is doing fine despite today’s snow, having just eaten some seeds from my garden bird table and taken a quick bath, he’s now fluffed up and posing for his beauty shot, well aware of me and my camera.
