Fascinating Faces
Unlike the [mostly fuzzy, and occasionally beaky] faces posted yesterday, these demonstrate more of the famous British stiff upper lip....
To begin, a Trafalgar Lion, of course.
Keeping a stern watch over the streets of London town.
Can you see the face in this monument to Scots hero William Wallace?
A noble London lion -- NOT at Trafalgar!
In search of Moriarty -- Sherlock, on Baker Street, of course.
One of the dragons protecting the square-mile of the actual City of London, now home to the financial district.
Robert the Bruce, against an impossibly blue Scottish sky outside Stirling Castle.
A pair of serene stone Salisbury hares...
A pair of friendly potheads. [And we thought we'd left them all behind in British Columbia....]
An unfortunate sinner, forever cast in stone on the side of Salisbury Cathedral, literally choking on his own evil.
A sunny Celtic face [as seen through Roman eyes] deep inside the hidden depths of Bath.
A family emblem in the form of a grasshopper -- atop a London landmark.
More evil incarnate, this time bat-winged, once again decorating Salisbury's ancient cathedral.
Mother and child, both looking a little thin on top, as the wood they are made of disintegrates with time.
And a final British lion, this one famously gracing the Great Hall of the British Museum.
~kc
4 comments:
That dragon is awesome!!!
Isn't it?
The dragon is how you tell you are going into the actual city of London -- every major street is marked with a dragon. (And dragon butt, therefore, marks your exit into the City of Westminster...)
~kc
Hi kc,
Really enjoyed your UK posts. We will treading in much the same footsteps this August. I was just wondering how much (or any) of trips like this are you able to write off if you are researching for a book. Hope that's not too crass of a question!
Hi Leanne,
I am more likely to write off tours and writing courses than I am a trip like this one, just because it was not strictly research. It's a worthy question, though -- one you might want to pose to the Writers' Union of Canada. They have a tax pamphlet for writers that is MOST useful.
~kc
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