Hopefully you're not bored with the Kew photos...there is something new to see every time... This morning was gloriously sunny and despite being cold it wasn't anywhere nearly as cold as it's been in recent days - temperatures with above zero!!
From the station you walk across Kew Bridge towards the Gardens, and I don't usually have the camera out of the bag, but it was looking gorgeous today, though I don't envy the rowers out in such chilly weather on the river!
Inside the Gardens. Sun shining brightly, making lovely long shadows across grass and the sky was blue.. a really lovely January day.
Sadly, the water was turned off at "my" fountain and the water was no longer frozen, but this is still my favourite part of the Gardens.
look at the sky, and the reflections!! January, for goodness sake!! Lovely.
Just lovely!
the Spring bedding outside the Palm House has been planted, and will be gorgeous.
Inside the Palm House my lens was misting up in the steamy heat, but it was looking green and lush.
For a change, I took a walk up the staircase to get a rooftop view round the Palm House.
where you get a much better idea of the size of the palms and ferns!
I love the wrought iron staircases too.
Though lots of the trees are yet to burst into new leaf, they make fabulous shapes against the sky.
and more shadows
close up of a tree trunk
and the Henry Moore sculpture again,
wet with dew drops from the melting frost
the lake by the Sackler Crossing was partly frozen, and I love the leaves frozen into the ice!
sun shining through the reeds
the sun is low at this time of year, but love the almost silhouetted reflections
Lots of ducks and geese and a couple of swans on the lake
this is the Sackler Crossing itself, love it's curved S shape across the lake.
the Rooftop Walkway, one of the newest features of the gardens, though it's been here a few years now.
Love how they created the rusted trunks of the structure to blend into the surrounding trees
walking back from the Treetop Walkway, I put the long lens on and got some more shots of the Henry Moore through the trees.
Wonderful colour and pattern in this huge tree trunk
back past the Palm House Lake, on my way to my final stop of the morning....
the Princess of Wales Glasshouse,
Where they are preparing for their annual Orchid display... it looks as if it will be more spectacular than ever this year! It was nice to be here with the work in progress, never managed that before,
beautiful Bromeliad on show.
The Orchid display opens on 7th February, in just a couple of weeks, so come back then and I'll take you along with me!
