Cambridge Botanical Gardens in Winter

The Botanical Gardens in Cambridge are not large, but they look beautiful, even in winter.  And the glasshouses are (mostly) warm on a cold winter's day.  All pictures taken with Olympus E-3 and 12-60 lens.

Grass reaching for the sun

HDR (mk 2) treatment of gardens

Powder Puff plant

A bookcase set into the glasshouse wall

The vent mechanism in the Alpine House

Into the Blue

Today was my first day back at work, for various reasons, and my first flight for 3 weeks.  It was a gorgeous day, with blue sky and little cloud – no sign of the cold front which would arrive in the afternoon bringing a polar maritime air flow . . .

Here is my cockpit as I climb through 2,000 feet at 80 knots heading north.

Clear Ahead