first-day-in-Oxford walk

First morning in Oxford - sunny and crisp.  The family (all but Thomson who was still asleep) took Doco and me walking, across the Thames at Folly Bridge and into Christ Church Meadows.  Our first stop was the row of college boathouses along the east bank - more than a dozen of them (there are a lot of colleges!) - and many women's-eights were loaded and ready for a race.  An excited throng.  Then out along the footpath around the meadow, with wonderful views back into Oxford and "Pooh Sticks" on the River Cherwell (which joins the Thames just downstream).  What a lovely first-morning walk!  (off to Douglas' field hockey game in the afternoon - Oxford Hawks 5)

Merton College, St.Mary's Church, and Radcliffe Camera

colourful rival to our Japanese maple at Wiltshire Street

"Pooh Sticks" #1

"Pooh Sticks" #2

"Pooh Sticks" #3

Molly tends a puddle at the back of Christ Church

Doco and Ellen on the Christ Church Meadows path

Three scallywags (including one papa)
 by Christ Church War Memorial Garden