In the United Kingdom
Circle of Lebanon – London: Twenty Egyptian-themed tombs were constructed in the 1800s to encircle an ancient cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery, London. Radclyffe Hall, author of The Well of Loneliness is interred here.
1949 Buick Roadmaster - Hyde Park, London
Early morning on the Arun River near Amberley, UK
Country Churchyard - Church of St. Mary the Virgin in the charming village of Chiddingstone, UK.
Memorial Plaque - Salisbury Cathedral: A fascinating feature of every British cathedral is the memorial plaques that line the walls, niches and walkways. They summarize–often in magisterial prose–the lives of people from interesting, and sometimes unexpected, corners of history.
A tranquil Country Lane - Ightham, Kent, UK
A swan cruises at leisure in a pond at Hampton Court Palace, UK
Studley Royal estate includes one of the best surviving examples of a Georgian water garden. It also incorporates Fountains Abbey, the largest monastic ruins in the UK.
Ely Cathedral - With the lofty title of The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, this site has been the scene of construction, dissolution, reconstruction and renovation since the 7th century.
The nave of the 12th century Benedictine monastery, Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. It was one of the largest monasteries in England until it’s dissolution by Henry VIII in the 1500s.
An impending storm hovers over the Great Park at Windsor Castle.
A decorative staircase at Hampton Court, one of Henry VIII’s palaces. The paintings are by by Antonio Verrio, and the balustrade is the work of the Huguenot ironsmith, Jean Tijou.
The Kell River as it flows through Fountains Abbey, the ruins of what was one of the great monasteries of Europe.
Skiddaw, in Keswick, Cumbria, is the sixth highest mountain in England.
Giant lily pads – Kew Gardens, London
The London Eye, an observation wheel on the Thames River, London. 443 feet in height, it is one of the tallest Ferris wheels in the world.
Yard of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, in the charming and friendly village of Burpham, Sussex. Mervyn Peake was the author of the famous “Gormenghast” fantasy novels.
Trees and ferns in the New Forest, in southern England, declared a royal forest by William the Conqueror (reigned 1066-1087).
Victorian-era paintings in the Octagon tower of Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire, UK
Reeds on the Arun River in West Sussex, England.
A winter storm lays a silvery coat over Regent Park, London
An ancient Roman bath, in—of all places—Bath, Somerset. The city was established as a spa by the Romans around 60 CE.
St. Luke’s church, Liverpool, at sunrise on a cold winter morning. The church was nearly destroyed in The Blitz and now serves as a memorial and a public park.
Tombstones and 11th century buildings made of flint – St. Leonard’s church, South Stoke, West Sussex.
The setting sun reflects off the ancient pillars of Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain. The structure is believed to have been built between 3000 BCE and 2000 BCE.
Titanic band memorial at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. The eight-member band assembled on the deck and continued to play to calm the passengers’ panic as the ship sank in icy north Atlantic in the early hours of April 15, 2012. The entire band perished. The inscription: “Courage and compassion joined, make the hero and the man complete.”
St. Luke’s Cathedral - Liverpool
Derwent Water lake, near the town of Keswick, in the Lake District of Cumbria, UK
Canterbury Cathedral is the seat of the leader of the Church of England. Construction began in 1077 with substantial rebuilding and expansion ever since.
Regent Park, London after a snowstorm
Choir - Winchester Cathedral, UK
A lone tree reflected in the languid waters of the Arun River, West Sussex.
Melrose Abbey - The ruins of a Cistercian abbey established in 1136 in the Borders region of Scotland.
Salisbury Cathedral, over 760 years old, and repository of one of the four original copies of the Magna Carta.