Two's Company

The starling murmuration over Brighton Pier was certainly an incredible sight! One of natures great spectacles.

In remembrance of those who lost their lives in all wars.

Of all the memorials to the fallen on the western front, I think the Canadian National Vimy Memorial is the most striking. I don't think you ever forget your first view of it. It's immense in size (the small dots around it in my photo are people) and awe inspiring up close. I'll post another closer shot shortly.

I always marvel at roses and how perfect they are when they first bloom.

A final shot from the big apple! It looked like this until I put my prescription sunglasses on :))

I made a recent visit to the World War One battlefields in Belgium and France. The poppies were in abundance on the Somme battlefield sites...a poignant yet wonderful sight.

Tyne Cot is the largest Commonwealth military cemetery in the world and is the resting place of 11,954 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces. Of the 11,954 burials in Tyne Cot cemetery, 8,367 are unidentified British or Commonwealth servicemen. This is about 70% of the total graves in the cemetery. These graves are marked with headstones which are inscribed with the words “Known unto God”. The Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing also bears the inscribed names of over 34,000 British and New Zealand soldiers whose remains are still missing in the Ypres Salient. You can see these on the curved wall in my photo. It's such a vast place that I was only able to photograph half of it here.

I love giraffes and was delighted on a recent visit to our local zoo when one came over to have a look at us :)

The iron men faces another beautiful sunset at Crosby.

Poppies blow in the wind on the Somme, France