Eye Eye III

Skywatch from the London Eye. Visit other Skywatch posts from around the world here.

That is Charing Cross Station. The design is supposed to look like a train emerging from a subway tunnel. What do you think?

Turning now a bit to the west, that street leads up to Picadilly Circus. Yes. You probably recognize Westminster Abbey at the left.

Ah, more familiar sights--the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben.

My sense of direction is a bit confused now--I think we have swung back toward the north a bit, and yes, that is Buckingham Palace beyond St. James Park.

Swinging further east, some more of metropolitan London along the Thames. I don't see St. Paul's Cathedral which should be the next bit to the right (east)--that must have been when I had to sit down because the altitude was getting to me.

Art in Lincoln Cathedral

Ah, they are restoring this stained glass window.

Were you fooled?

This large painting was in the cathedral's cafeteria--showing the work that had been done several years earlier. Isn't it amazingly realistic?

The cathedral istself is a work of art--the architecture both inside and out as we have already seen, works of art in the windows, ins carved tombs (which will be the next cathedral post) and exhibits being shown at the time we were visiting.

In one side chapel was an exhibit of calligraphy and illumination.





A needlepoint wall-hanging represented the plants of the cloister garden.

The art installation that most moved me were "The Forest Stations--this interpretation of the stations of the cross done in woods from all over the world There are 163 different woods in the fifteen pieces. (I will add the name of the artist later, as I have left the booklet I purchased in my office.)

Here are some of the images.

Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the cross.

The women of Jerusalem weep.

























Jesus is nailed to the cross.

Jesus dies on the cross.

Gothic Reflected

Mirrored table in the cathedral cloisters.

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Lincoln Cathedral Part 2

Interior architectural detail