The view to the west from St. Paul’s after a bit of knee exercise:

Somebody who matters to Erin apparently put toy boats in this pond as a child (notice the lovely London weather, by the way):

One of the birds on which I put the zoom lens to use. What are parakeets doing in England, anyway?

And possibly the most inappropriate memorial ever built:

(Erin thinks I should say more about the pictures — I think y’all can guess.)
Alan Schmierer
I wholeheartedly agree on that memorial… that’s Queen Victoria’s memorial to Prince Albert, right? For a woman who wore black for the rest of her life, she really outdid herself with that one…
And all that for a man who didn’t want a memorial at all.