Acton Park and Maya's birds

Are you like me? Whenever possible I try to avoid the same route, try to find a new one. It's more fun and you never know what you may encounter. Besides, it makes sense to avoid the main throughfares when on a bicycle. Cycling home via Acton this evening I turned into Acton Park and stopped there for a few minutes. It was a welcome change after the busy street and all day's work.

 

Acton Park

 This building across the street north of the park is called The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths:

 There is an obelisk in the park. It commemorates  James Radcliffe Earl of Derwentwater, one of the 1715 rebellion against the Anglo-Scottish Union.

Acton Park lawn reading a newspaper

I left the park through the north-western gate, turned left and soon stopped in front of my friend's Maya Stanic's workshop. Of course it was closed on the Sunday, but the low sun allowed me to take nice pictures of the building and of the little stained-glass birds made by Maya. I photographed them inside when I visited Maya some time ago.

Later, at home I opened a link my Polish friend sent me and I saw more birds. They were humming birds, painted by Philip Reinagle two hundred or more years ago.

Going back to the main road I stopped to photograph the house that stands out among all the Victorian red-brick dwellings like the one below.

And then I headed home without any more delays.