St Oswald's Bay Split in Half

A larger than normal land slip is reported to have split my favourite beach in half. These things happen quite often but this is bigger than usual reminding us to tread carefully but the sea will mop it up in a jiffy! See here before:

 And now:
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-22355538

Berlin

No prizes for guessing where I got to the other day. 

Zeus at the

Pergamon

five Museums in three days!

Just wonderful "Biscuit or Parian ware"

Recognise the pose, yep that awful one!

hands, hands, hands

 and feet too

touching pose

I really found this moving, believable, perhaps as I have been to sea recently!

 Couldn't resist this one picture!

These chaps from Dijon on loan were a lucky find, just amazing!

Wonderfully..........

Optional fig leaf!

Another Leda and the swan for you Chris!

 So much to see difficult to target it all' but here are some of the best.

on my way home with some pictures of Pan too!

He has been visiting us and he left the taps on! I hope the water companies will save some of it. I will let you know when they declare a drought again!

Beautiful Dorset

"Summer goes so quickly was it something that you said..... in the windmills of your mind"……

These is hardly representative of the summer of 2012 but to prove it was not all bad here are a few shots of the Dorset Coast from the sea. This was within a few miles East of the Olympic sailing area, a beautiful place and still largely unspoilt for a moment or two.

Just out to sea, from here to the Needles off the Isle of Wight, there are plans to build huge wind turbines on a massive scale. This World Heritage site will soon be home to our attempts at curbing global warming. From the Artistic standpoint, I do not find them aesthetically interesting in groups! More detail at http://www.navitusbaywindpark.co.uk/project.aspx where I got this map and more can be found at the Crown Estates Website.