Corner Notes: 14 October 2009

Overgrown formal garden, 1700's build. Oxley Woods, off green chain walk, Eltham, Greenwich, 10 AM. Used to be off an old manor house (not currently standing)

Two old men, one with earrings and a small excitable dog, one who fought in WWII with a newspaper and a stack of mail--discuss the history of the area. This tree--see how it leans? That's still here from the hurricane in '87. That was probably before you were born. Good dentures.

The manor house--where that garden is now--had a lady in it who built that little castle on the hill. Had a little cafe in it when I was younger. The city says they want to fix it up, but that'll be lottery money. The government takes 12% out of that in tax! Can you believe that? You play some numbers, try to win a prize, and you get taxed for it!

You can see back here, it goes pink before it goes red. Lovely October, don't you think?

They used to have 12 gardeners here, when I was a lad. Told us to keep off the grass and we did. Now we're lucky if it gets cut at all. At least they cleaned the graffiti off. We think they're getting it ready for 2012.

----Roses past their prime. Some of the bricks have been cleaned. A doorway is newly bricked over. Wisteria grows rampant.----

-Pressed mushrooms, flowers
-Rubbing of bricks (not great)
-isometric rendering of space
-70 photos.