Friday, June 05, 2009

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:

Dale said...

That dragon is awesome!!!

kc dyer said...

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

Leanne said...

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!

kc dyer said...

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