Happy New Year

Earlsfield

A beautiful sunrise to greet the New Year

Merry Christmas

The church in the background is St Lawrence Jewry, near Guildhall.  Re-built by Wren after the Great Fire.  Except you are probably sick of Christmas by now.  But not the time off.  Enjoy!

Lets all go home It's Christmas

Wimbledon

Another year nearly over, no more commuting for a few days. Happy Christmas

Sunrise Waterloo

Waterloo Bridge

View from the top deck of the 243

Last of the leaves

Leonard Street

Tenaciously hanging on till the very end of the year in Shoreditch

Exit Waterloo

Waterloo from Platform 1

The blue is the hotel, the pink the London Eye

Reflections at Old Street

Old Street

Building work is going on all around the roundabout as the development circle expends from the city

Missed it

Hampton Wick

The platform is empty, just for a few minutes.

Walking the dog

Broom Road

Cold and bright.  I'm walking because I have to catch a train, the owner is probably walking because they have to take the dog out.  The dog however, is probably enjoying it.

Vortex over Clapham

Clapham

It isn't a vortex, just a hole in the clouds, but a poetic eye is needed on another cloudy day, on another slow-running train into work

To the city

Hoxton High Street

The City stops suddenly, the architecture changes from one side of the street to the other.

Sculptured river

Queen Victoria Strret

Cristina Iglesias specialises in sculptures that look like running water.  This one is outside the Bloomberg HQ, where the Walbrook used to flow

Closing the gaps

Waterloo

Soon the railway will be hedged in on either side by buildings, at the moment there are still glimpses between the blocks

River bus

Millennium Bridge looking east

The river is grey and purple this morning, it's never the same colour twice

Nelson at a distance

Trafalgar Square

Hazy day in November, on a rare trip west

Fractured art

Shoreditch

Found this one by Kaz.  I don't know if the damage is deliberate, and part of the art, but it's a sentiment I can relate to

East end Autumn

Bunhill fields

The east end of London has a distinct lack of green spaces, graveyards make up quite a few of those available

Grey sunrise

Clapham

To my eyes it just looks grey, and miserable.  With a glimpse of the sunrise. It's only when I see the photograph of it that I can appreciate the complex shapes of the cloud formations.  Still overcast and gloomy though

Leaves of Autumn

Broom Road

Dead leaves.  Yes.  No I don't know why they look so pretty

100 Bishopsgate

Camomile Street

Another glass box, but this one has an angle part way up.  I'm sure the architects have many more impressive words to describe how they came to this design, but that's what it is.

Glorious sunset

Wimbledon

One of those beautiful sunsets that disappears so fast, it's dark before you get home.

Bankside lights

Bankside

According to Wikipedia 'Bankside' is recorded in 1554 as the Banke syde and means 'street along the bank of the Thames'.  These days it's jammed with tourists and school journey parties to The Globe Theatre, but in the morning it is a pleasant walk

Lights across the river

Waterloo to Vauxhall

Soon there will be no more views across the river as the last space fill in with another tower block.  Not even as dark and as small as this one

South to St Mary Axe

Norton Folgate

The City stops abruptly at it's border with Norton Folgate.  The developers are doing their best to expand the money northwards, but it's in luxury flats not businesses.

Approaching Clapham

Clapham Junction

Evening twilight - the sky is still pale but the lights are on.  It has romantic connotations far removed from cramped commuter trains and busy stations

Autumn Glory

Redcross Way

Autumn sunshine and a gloriously brilliant yellow tree

Deceptively quiet

Cheapside

A snapshot, a split second, the road looks empty, busy commute are you kidding?  Lots of people hidden in the shadows and the vans and buses arrive a moment later

Morning on the river

Millennium Bridge

When I look down and see this, part of me asks 'Swop jobs would you?'

Between the rain clouds

Hampton Wick

Warm but wet.

Lunch at the Boxpark

Bethnal Green Road

Friday is treat day, and there are still sunny days in September

Old, new and unfinished

Bishopsgate

Tower 42 (in the background)is still the most elegant of the skyscrapers in the city, the new builds, reflected here, don't come anywhere near it.

Under the bridge

Queensland Road

Queensland Road has a rusty iron bridge over which the Southern trains pass on their way to Victoria, in silhouette, neither the rust nor the graffiti under the bridge can be seen

Monochrome sunset

Battersea

It's hot, humid and overcast.  The colour has been bleached out of the evening, and it's a monochrme sunset

Change of meaning

Redcross Way

I have no idea what this poster originally said, it has been decaying for years.

The scruffy end

Southwark Street

Part expensive up by the Tate, part scruffy as it approaches Borough, a place the tourists never see as they stick to walking along the river

Two Moderns

Sumner Street

The modern glass of the expensive flats contrasting with the heavy dull brick of the museum.  Both ugly in their own way.

Blue under blue

Broom Road

Sometimes the simplest things can be wonderful

Whittington Gardens

Upper Thames Street

The Gardens are a tiny tree lined square, always shady in summer, complete with statue and fountain

Reflections in Lackington Street

Lackington Street

Window box

Finsbury Circus

I appreciate the window boxes of the old fashioned buildings - they are a feature which today's architects don't bother with, which is a shame. 

Thames sunset

Thames at Kew Gardens

The nights are closing in

Balancing act

Blackfriars Road

Now this is something you don't see everyday, a cyclist waiting for the lights.  Superb balance.

The Prancing Pony

I was wandering down Petticoat Lane way, back towards the city, but I have no idea which street I was on.  It's one of the pleasures of the lunchtime walk, going down the road you didn't go down last time.

Late summer

Westbourne Gardens

Dahlias - a sign that summer is past the midway mark

In outline

Clapham

It's only a month past the solstice and the sun is getting lower but it's getting also getting warmer

City Gardens

St Pauls

The City of London plant the gardens around St Paul's Cathedral and judging from the results they hire people of talent.  I think all the London councils do.  Spaces to sit and have lunch or just walk around make so much difference.

Abseiling a must

Sun Street

Abseiling a mandatory skill for the modern day window cleaner

Reflections on the 'The Family'

Appold Street

Part of a sculpture by Xavier Corbero called 'The Broad Family' on a  hot and cloudless day - hence the reflected windows from the adjacent building

All threat and no rain

Earlsfield

It's hot and humid.  My trains do not have air-conditioning and all I want is a thunderstorm to cool things down.  But it does not materialise

Round the corner

Bishopsgate

The great thing about glass buildings is although they may be really boring in themselves, they reflect everything around them.