The old soldier has seen it all before as he looks on at Chelsea Flower Show 2013



The Royal Hospital Chelsea
RHS

British bulldogs for sale at the Royal Hospital Chelsea stand at Chelsea Flower Show weaing their special pensioner's outfits. You can buy them on line at the link below - just click on online shop on  the left of the home page. and look at toys and models.

The Royal Hospital Chelsea

Everyone strives for a gold, but silver and bronze are also good. To get a medal at an RHS Flower Show is something to be treasured - these wheelbarrows symbolise that.

RHS Show and Events

100 years of Chelsea Flower Show

The Guards Association Band play marches and overtures under the celebration banner  at the Ranelagh Gardens Bandstand

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013 (This link will not last for ever!)
RHS

100 years of Chelsea Flower Show

Even the stands were joining in, although the RHS is considerably older than Chelsea Flower Show!

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013 (This link will not last for ever!)
RHS

100 years of Chelsea Flower Show

Walker's Pine Cottage Garden featured this specially commissioned sculpture celebrating the hundred years of Chelsea Flower Show.


RHS Chelsea Flowewr Show 2013 (This link will not last for ever!)
RHS
Walker's Nurseries Ltd

100 years of Chelsea Flower Show

In the Great Pavilion of the 92nd CFS - even though it has been held at The Royal Hospital Chelsea for 100 years. There were no shows in 1917 and 1918 or from 1940 - 46.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013 (This link will not last for ever!)
RHS

Karma: A Tower of Blinded Men Rising into the Sky by Do Ho Suh

In the Sculpture Garden, NOMA

A tree grows by the Museum of Modern Art, New Orleans

NOMA

Algiers Point, Jazz Walk of Fame - a stroll along the levee where many of the famous New Orleans Jazz greats are remembered in the lampposts.

Satchmo
He greets the ferry arrivals.

Iron House - a community outreach project

Iron House

We had delicious coffee and cake here!


Tout de Suite Cafe

The pretty door at no 231

Shooting the breeze

The band marches up to the levee

More US Mail

Port and starboard gates

Great sentiment!

Mardi Gras meets St Patrick's Day!

Hmm, a yellow elephant!

Cutesy table on the porch

Bird friendly mother-in-law

Unusual garden decoration - must be an historic bell.

Waiting for the US Mail

Mardi Gras door

Overlooked by the tallest building in New Orleans. It's on the other side of the river.

Historic cinema is now a glass studio. It was closed, but interesting glass in the windows


Rosetree Gallery

Historic bank - looking very closed!