Photos From St. James's Park And Environs

 

Victoria Tower/Houses of Parliament

Buckingham Palace from St. James's Park

Seeing a black swan is a

real, um black swan event.

London Eye as seen from

the banks of the lake.

Parrots!

Flowers! (A Peruvian Lily)

Gurkhas march in double time.

These weeping willows are

so beautiful I want to cry.

A Eurasian Coot.

The Guards Memorial, World War I.

Cool architecture near Parliament.

The Burghers of Calais, a

statue by Auguste Rodin in

the Victoria Tower Gardens.

It commemorates an event

 In 1347, during the siege

 of Calais by Edward III, when

 six leading citizens (burghers)

of the town offered themselves

as hostages to the English

king in exchange for the

lives of the remaining citizens

and the lifting of the siege.