Here are a series of photos I have taken over the last few weeks while in Bath and during my weekly visits to Oxford. I try to have my camera on me at all times. I like taking pictures of trees, and I love the sky, but I have also tried to start taking more pictures of people, and am losing my shyness about doing so, although sometimes I feel slightly stalkerish.
BATH
This is the main street in Widcombe. My street goes up past the church spire you can see in the background.
Here is the street I live on.
The door and front of Bath Abbey.
A close up of the sculpted ladders on the side of the Abbey. They were pointed out to us when we did a free Walking Tour of Bath.
The back of the Abbey.
The Circle. This is just part of it, the houses encircle a circular green area with trees. (Not the most articulate and eloquent sentence I have ever written...)
The Royal Crescent is so beautiful. Unfortunately I couldn't get a picture of all of it, so had to take it in three parts. Sam, is there a way to put these all next together horizontally?
This lion is on top of the gates that go to Victoria Park.
The only bridge in England which has shops on it. It's so neat looking.
In case you were thinking of jumping in...
Man sleeping in the Abbey Square. My housemate says he is there alot, although I have only seen him the one time.
This is apparently what the buildings would look like if the all the soot and pollution from the 18th and 19th century hadn't been cleaned off.
Can you tell which windows are real? This was pointed out by our tour guide on the tour of bath. Supposedly because of a window tax many of the buildings in Bath have blocked in windows. To make the buildings look semetrical many of them are then painted to look like windows. I recently looked through my window at the building across the street and realized it has two fake windows on it.
These men perform their bizarre act occasionally in front of the Bath Abbey. We were lucky (or unfortunate, depending how you see it) enough to see them.
This is my favorite part of Bath, the river Avon, which I cross every day to go into the center of Bath.
I saw this man at the saturday market when we had a tour of it during orientation.
I love his pheasant feather.
OXFORD
Didcot Parkway where I switch trains.
My first day in Oxford I walked along the canals. I put my camera on a second too late to take the cat lying down. It's still cute though.
White cat against white paint...
Bridge over the canal.
Saw this by the canal and thought of home and kayaking on the Choptank.
Beautiful Christ Church College. I went to Christ Church Meadows the second time I was in Oxford, and have gone back every week to have my lunch.
Christ Church College and...
...the lovely avenue of trees in the meadows where I eat my lunch and where I met Zoe Peterssen.
Cool building on one of the main streets.
Neat trees near my professor's house.