may

sublime #39

Still trying to process the wealth of things I have seen/experienced over the past month. I have photographed MANY gardens and flowers and I’m not bored of it in the slightest. May sublime moments and bts/phone captures:

high up in the mountains of Mallorca

frilly bits in the field with Falls and Standards

• bearded irises appear to glow after sundown

• turtle doves make the perfect soundtrack to evening garden photography

• hot air balloons are magical and mystical and weird

• my neighbours are having their garden landscaped and the skip outside is full of rubbly treats. every day a new story

• 36 hours is both an incredibly long time and also the shortest

• lavender in tea is brilliant

glasshouse at East Ruston Old Vicarage, Benton End

I had a few spare hours in an unfamiliar city and found myself in Reading Museum, which also happens to be the town hall and registry office*. They have a life-size (70 metres) reproduction of the Bayeaux Tapestry that was embroidered by an ambitious group of women in 1885. I loved the colours! There was also a gallery full of taxidermy/plant specimens, local rock studies and the best bit? A room full of Huntley & Palmers biscuit tins. Hard recommend it if you' find yourself in that neck of the woods.

*explaining the many bow-ties and fascinators flitting around in the gallery.

treats for the eyes from a few hours in Reading Museum; tins, biscuit designs, 2 cosmetic mirrors from 1910 & 1940 and a Japanese biscuit tin (all in the Huntley & Palmers gallery) detail of a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, windows that made my phone tell me I needed to clean the camera, trees and signatures on the 1885-6 reproduction Bayeaux Tapestry

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This is very excellent. Among Willows by Cynthia Fan, published by Batis Books.

Artur's kitchen waste and some very good-looking trugs found on my travels

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lucky dip

whisking you away to the high line in New York: