Well, I’m making some progress on the WordPress front, and there will be a new BMblog, but meanwhile, the last of the photos I want to show you that I took on Jan 5. I took the tube back home, but chose to get out at Victoria rather than Pimlico, probably to try to buy the Gramophone, which I can now, near to me, only buy there. And because I did that, I was able to feast my eyes on this:
That is the late afternoon sun crashing through where the trains go in an out, and bouncing off various reflective surfaces.
I like how this kind of scene permits bright colours, like those little union jacks, but turns fainter colours monochrome, like when that little girl in a red coat appears in Schindler’s List.
I particularly like this little part of the scene:
What I love about sights like that is the way the sun turns those lights on. No electricity is involved. It’s pure sunlight.