“The Hidden Harmony is better than the obvious… Nature loves to hide”

Heraclitus

The courtyard at Standen House

Outbuildings at Standen House

Including I think, a part of the Head Gardener's cottage.

Path through woodland

Bob the Cactus

Grown from seed in 1945.

Standen House interior

Japanese jar, Meiji period, possibly Arita ware

The National Trust catalogue doesn't give much information about this lovely jar: Date: 1900 - 1907 Materials: Ceramic Measurements: 216 mm (H)215 mm (Diameter) NT 1213536

The Tooting Common Fossil Tree

The stump of a fossilised conifer on Tooting Common. 145 million years old, originally part of the Purbeck Fossil Forest near Lulworth Cove, Dorset. Quarried out and presented to the Balham & District Antiquarian and Natural History Society by local developer Alfred Heaver, it has stood beside the lake on Tooting Bec Common since 1898.

The Tooting Common Fossil Tree

The plaque reads: Fossilized remains of a tree trunk from the Lower Purbeck Bed, Portland. Moved from Bedford Hill Park by the Balham Antiquarian and Natural History Society and placed here by the permission of the London County Council.

Grand garden gate

I've looked on old maps but can't find any reference to what these gates might have once belonged to. The green space has been there for over 130 years. Perhaps it was a grand house, or the entrance to the grand garden of an old estate that no longer exists. It's off Greyhound Lane in Streatham, which has been in existence since at least 1948, when there was not much else around apart from common land and farms.

Front garden, Streatham

Lifeless mannequin head with black hair, human-like mask, and a disarticulated, headless, and damaged torso mannequin with writing on it, placed next to a gray filing cabinet.

Photography

Inexistent Realities

Two men in a large industrial warehouse, one in the foreground and one in the background, with a mound of what appears to be sand or dirt on the ground.

Inexistent Realities

Photography

Inexistent Realities

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