autumn leaves

Sitting in Sheffield Botanical Gardens on Sunday. Felt overwhelmingly happy surrounded by the intense yellow of crisp fallen leaves with sunlight sprinkling across as they fluttered gently with the wind.

post rain pre sunset

Ordinary Beauty - the photography of Edwin Smith - RIBA

I hadn't heard of Edwin Smith before and I think I really should have. His photographs are beautiful with amazing light and show the beauty of everyday life.

On till 6 Dec 2014

Ancient Lives, New Discoveries - British Museum

Fascinating look under the wrappings of Egyptian mummies. They put mummies through scanners and you can see the amulets and things wrapped in there as well as into those jars of hearts/lungs etc. You can see what the people looked like too. At the end you see their ghostly faces recreated. It's macabre and yet it conjures up real lives from the coffins.

On till 19 April 2015

Plums???

Pretty colours outside our flat. Possibly plums?

Books about town: Greenwich and Riverside Trails

Matisse: Cut Outs - Tate Modern

This was open all night last night because it is the last weekend/popularity so I went at 6am. It was glorious. Space to look at leisure and just wonderful.

The colours and the energy and the joy in the cut outs made me so happy.