Life in gardens: puppies

children-with-puppies-oxford-ohio-f-snyder-miami-university-librariesChildren with puppies, Oxford, Ohio, ca. early 20th c., by Frank R. Snyder, via Miami University Libraries on flickr (both photos).

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The one on the left above is particularly slippery.

Wordless Wednesday: Oxford garden

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Chaplain’s Quadrangle garden of Magdalen College, Oxford, September 2012.

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A study in steps, London

This is a walkway combining steps and ramps between St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Millennium Bridge.

The strange black and white sculpture in the photo below is a variation of the mascots of the 2012 Olympics.

I also spotted these interesting steps, below, at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Oxford stump seat

We’re just back tonight from three weeks of travel that included London and a day trip to Oxford.

I have a number of photos to share, but I thought I’d start with this one — of a seat roughly carved from a tree stump left at the edge of a path along the River Cherwell, behind Magdalen College, Oxford.