I'm back from a month away in green and pleasant lands, seeing friends and family, and celebrating weddings and birthdays. 
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| the Wedding Tower in Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany.. part of a Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) artists' colony in the early 1900s
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| the Russian chapel in Darmstadt | 
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| Jugendstil pillars at the Darmstadt atelier, designed by  Joseph Maria Olbrich | 
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| plane trees, Darmstadt | 
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| statue in Wiesbaden | 
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| Globe theatre, London | 
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| statue of Shackleton at the Royal Geographical Society, London | 
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| cricket in the park, Greenwich | 
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| St. Paul's | 
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| wedding meadow, Hampshire | 
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| Gilbert White's House,Hampshire | 
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| near the Maltings, Farnham |