Edward Carpenter

Blue plaque marking the birthplace of Edward Carpenter at 45 Brunswick Square. Carpenter was a poet, anthologist, social philosopher and early gay activist.

William and Esther

St Andrew's Old Church, Church Road.
You can see more gravestones and memorials over at this week's Taphophile Tragics.

Terracotta street sign

West side, Brunswick Square

Music in the Pavilion Gardens

Not a cloud in the sky

Looking up Lansdowne Place from Kingsway.

Summer sky over Brighton Pavilion

You can see more of today's sky photographs at Skywatch Friday.

Waterworks

Digging up the pavement, Hove Street.

Elizabeth, Ann and James Francis

Francis family gravestone, St Andrew's Old Church, Church Road.
You can see more gravestones and memorials over at this week's Taphophile Tragics.

Down by the sea

It's a beautiful day at the seaside!

Peace is a state of mind

Peace mosaic, St Andrew's Old Church, Church Road.

Growing in shingle

Sea kale (Crambe maritima) growing on Shoreham Beach.

Keep off the plants!

Growing plants successfully on my balcony is a bit of a struggle. The balcony is south-facing and on the third-floor east/south corner of the block - plants bake in the summer, freeze in the winter and they're battered by strong, salt-laden winds during most of the year. This year, I'm trying a trough of violas and ivy. The sticks poking out of the soil at angles are bamboo skewers; this makes a pretty good pigeon deterrent.

Shoreham clouds

You can see more of today's sky photographs at Skywatch Friday.

Mary Edwardes, nee Durr

Gravestone, St Mary de Haura, Shoreham-by-Sea.

Fallen petals

Progressing

Building work is still going on; the roof looks very different from how it did last month.

Daisy, daisy

Tree shadow

Waiting

Waiting for Steph outside the Brighton Centre before going inside to Creative Stitches.

A lovely morning

You can see more of today's sky photographs at Skywatch Friday.

Wisteria, Denmark Villas

It's raining again

Several varieties of ivy covering a wall in Denmark Villas.

Shades of green

Architectural detail

Detail, Regent House.

Floreat Hova

Hove's coat of arms above the doorway of an office building, Regent House, in Hove Street. The Latin motto means "May Hove flourish".

Purple iris

One we made earlier

Heavy cloud cover has meant the sky has been an unbroken grey for the last few days - here's a much nicer sky from last month.

You can see more of today's sky photographs at Skywatch Friday.

Pink

I took this photograph of the clematis-down-the-road on Tuesday, May 1st - it's flowering slightly later than it did last year.

Greening up nicely

We've had plenty of rain down here on the coast; plants and trees are turning shades of green. This is Vallance Road looking towards the lumpy, bumpy tree.

Raindrops