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Kings Cross wanderings

Yesterday was the first really hot day this year so I grabbed my camera and set off for a wander around Kings Cross. The good weather always brings people out onto the streets, pale complexions get their first sun and children let off steam in the fountains at Granary Sq.

The first hot day in Spring...

The first hot day in Spring…

Kings Cross


Meditation in the City…

Evening garden and company...

A different kind of post today, inspired by the weather and the time to let my mind wander…

‘It’s the first warm evening of the year. A surprisingly hot spring day hazes into a cobalt blue evening. The first stars twinkle through the outstretched arms of the garden trees and I find myself drawn outside.
I take a seat on my back step and gradually dissolve into the evening. I let sight and sound wash over me, not reaching or holding, just being.
Slowly the tiny sounds of the evening city separate from the background white noise of London traffic. Sirens wail in the distance and air brakes suddenly screech on a nearby road. A chink of plates comes from the house opposite, higher than expected. Third floor washing up. Every so often there is the sound of running water by my feet and I realise this is water from neighbour’s houses, sluicing through the subterranean tunnel under my garden.
The back door of the house to the right clicks open and almost immediately I smell cigarette smoke and hear the burbling of the television. Something else too, a faint stale smell, un-aired rooms and domesticity.
Next to me my cat shifts slightly and the bell around her neck chinks gently. She stares at me for a while but then settles back down. She understands this silent observation. We watch the darkening garden together.
Suddenly there is rustling in the foliage. Small things move, surprisingly loud in this intimate space. Mice, frogs, snails, I’m not sure. My cat would know.
The woman next door coughs softly.
The stars grow steadily brighter and a blackbird trills it’s sweet liquid song into the night. Planes cross overhead and the traffic continues to rumble. Sitting close to the floor I feel safe, secure, enfolded by garden, trees and houses. The domestic lives of a million people wash over and me and it is strangely peaceful. My cat and I watch a light switch on in a window opposite as a satellite tracks overhead’.

14th April, 2015


Culinary devotion…!

I was out and about in Kings Cross this weekend and had to share the picture of this couple I noticed eating alfresco in Granary Square 🙂

Culinary devotion...!

Culinary devotion…!


Kings Cross – new American Carwash images

American carwash

American carwash

American carwash

American carwash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After years of begging, the management of the (in)famous carwash on York Way finally let me in early one morning to take these pictures.

The building is a fantastic old Victorian industrial space mouldering gently away. It’s destined to be demolished and turned into a hotel very soon so I was getting pretty desperate to get in there! I think I caught the new day manager in a good mood…  🙂

All shot on my Nkon D90.


Varini photography competition win!

Kings Cross

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The lovely people at N1C have just told me that my photo ‘All Hail the Rain’ has won the Varini Photography Competition!! Whoop!  🙂