Today is a day of mixed weather: clouds, rain and sunny intervals. We managed a short walk between showers. We didn’t go anywhere new but walked around some oft-visited streets.

Percy Circus Garden

This is the central garden in Percy Circus, looking rather dull compared with its brighter aspect on our last visit.

I noticed something about these houses that I hadn’t noticed before:

Curved façade

I saw that the facade is curved to fit the curvature of the Circus. I wonder whether this curvature affects the shape of the room within.

My next thought was a question as to whether all the houses in the Circus had curved fronts. One way to answer that was to photograph some of them!

Curvature of Percy Circus

The houses in the above photo certainly follow the curvature of the Circus but I find it hard to tell whether the individual façades are curved or not. The third one (where the first whilte car is parked) seems to show some curvature but the others look straight. What do you think?

I shall have to go back for another look!

From Percy Circus, we passed along Prideaux Place where I photographed this house.

Smallest in the street

It is by far the smallest building in the street, a fact that makes it stand out. Was it designed small to fit a specific site or did the owners-to-be ask for a small house? Either way, it’s very attractive and I can’t help thinking that it would meet our requirements with room to spare. We could at last unpack all these boxes for whose contents we have no space!

  

These street lamps caught my eye because the decorations around the widest part of the lantern were sparkling in the sun. The design is modern but reflects that of the old gas lights.

The sun came out during the last part of our walk and this, together with the moisture from the earlier rain, seems to have attracted the insects. I tried photographing some of them but it’s quite hard to do with the iPhone camera. One of the problems is that of focus: when there are insects among the plants, the camera doesn’t know to focus on them and instead focuses on the plants so that the insects are blurred, out of focus.

This is a case where Tigger managed better than I did so all the following photos are edited from photos she kindly let me use.

Unknown insects on a poppy
Photo by Tigger

I don’t know what these two insects are (maybe hoverflies?) but they seem to have alighted on this poppy flower to take a drink from the raindrops on it.

Ants on flower buds
Photo by Tigger

Ants had climber all the way up to these flower buds to do whatever ants do on flower buds.

The most interesting are perhaps the bees. We found a lavender bush on which several bees were busily visiting the flowers. They move very fast and are therefore difficult to photograph. There were several sorts of bees, not just honey bees but I am not knowledgeable enough to identify the different types.

Bees
Photos by Tigger

I must ask Tigger to give me a tutorial on photographing bees (and practically everything else, for that matter!).

You can guess what comes next: yes, a call in at Myddelton’s for our daily coffee and a quick walk home to enjoy it!