Here are some gentle flowers I encountered in Brooklyn's Botanical Gardens..a spacious green haven offering peaceful respite from the intensity of the urban jungle

Blessed are the men and women who are planted in your garden Who grow as your trees and flowers grow Who transform their darkness into light. Their roots plunge into darkness; Their faces turn toward the light ….1st century Odes of Solomon

For our beloved Ian..

Cilla Black accompanied us through the 60’s with wonderful songs like this…Vocally she had a special ability to instantly shift from spine tingling magical fragility to glorious full throated drama…And some!Our lives became more colourful with her presence as a...

Sometimes you encounter the most wonderful things on the streets of Secret London!

Me and the girls..back in the day!

I've been going through my "stuff" of late.. And came upon this fabric painting.. had a lot of fun in the making of it a few years ago..

A Hundred and Fifty years of Portobello Road and still surviving in spite of it all!

Congratulations to Natalie Johns who's just been nominated for an Emmy forOutstanding Directing For A Variety Special: Annie Lennox: Nostalgia Live In Concert - PBS - A Tricycle Logic Production in association with Blue Note Records and THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET

You never know what you might find on the backstreets of Secret London..Horse Power!!

In a sombre mood after seeing "Amy" last night...

A reflective day of remembrance here in London today for all the victims of the bombings 10 years ago.

If ever you're in the North East of Scotland I highly recommend a visit to Dunnottar Castle near Stonehaven..

Encouraging news today from Cuba regarding the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV . http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/30/cuba-first-eliminate-mother-baby-hiv-transmission?CMP=fb_guRemember that 35 MILLION people are living with the virus....

Oh what a tangled mess we leave! An inheritance of now defunct electronic chargers and leads??? What to do with this stuff people...

Something we could all benefit from

I received this lovely book by Nick Cave from Cannongate publishers today! Excuse me for a minute....