Kew Gardens on an April Easter afternoon Impressions: Muddy, sludgy ground, puddles, threat of rain, white cloud, confetti petals, magnolia, hopping robin, pink and white blossom. Question: What marks spring for you? Find out more about Walk Coach Learn events and coaching
St James Park on a week day afternoon in March. Impressions: White sky thick with cloud. Sweet, ice-creamy smell of blossom. Heaving with tourists dawdling and suits marching through. A festival of waterfowl and birds, majestic pelicans, swans. Squawking, hissing, clucking, sirens, variety of languages. Weeping willows, bursting buds, low loopy fencing, so many flowers. A …
Plaistow Park on an early March morning. Impressions: Mist, dark sky, sun breaking through. Loud birds, pink blossom, curled daisies waking up. Quiet, fresh chill in the air. White, grey and blue. Daffodils, dandelions, flowerless rose bushes, cigarette butts. Question: How do you wake up? Unfurling quietly or with a loud leap? Images: Find out …
Museum Gardens on a week day lunchtime in February. Impressions: Cloudy, rainy, hard sky, sludgy mud, damp, shiny paths. Early blossom, spring shoots, beginning of buds, lively, scavenging squirrels, a squirrel dead in the grass. Museum of Childhood, church bells chiming. A crowd of children on a nursery trip, a crowd of bigger children on a …