street sights in the morning

It is amazing what you can see on the streets when all the Londoners are still asleep in their beds!  Since today is a bank holiday and the end of a long 3-day weekend, I had the streets to myself for my morning power walk.  I'm pretty slow right now and only covering 3 miles in about an hour.  But hey, there's much to see and appreciate and I don't go anywhere without my camera to capture those special sightings!

Where else can you be listening to the Bee Gees on your ipod, walking briskly and run into the Queen's Guards on their horses on their morning walk down Curzon Street in Mayfair?  Don't know where they were going, but lovely to see in the cool sunny morning.  Top of the day to you, mates!

And I couldn't help but notice the extraordinary artwork on Park Lane at the base of Hyde Park...

Looping back down Oxford Street, I was thrilled to see Selfridges exterior all decked out in a month long Fish Campaign that ClientEarth is a key partner in....The marine program of our attorneys is credited with the most comprehensive, reasonable, and promising long term plan to aide EU countries and their respective small fishing fleets in reforming the Common Fisheries Policy.  A part of that is coalescing 90% of the supermarket distributors of fish into a campaign to encourage/educate consumers to the need for support to eliminate needless by-catch of fish caught but discarded.

The afternoon found us at the Hot House (office building in Hackney), home of ClientEarth.  Three hours of meetings later, we adjourned to a local pub for wine and dinner.  Of course,  I had "fish and chips" and enjoyed the company of talented, passionate, smart, and committed environmentalists with superb skills that make ClientEarth the "game changer" it already is in only its three years of operation.
Thanks, James, for your extraordinary leadership.  Now if we can only get that glass of wine away from him......