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Today we visited the British Tate Museum. Our primary goal was to revisit Joseph Mallord William Turner, especially his later works. However, I couldn’t go there without seeing the John Singer Sargent painting of two girls lighting Chinese lanterns. In my humble opinion this is the most beautiful painting in London. Here’s a link to the museum page about it: Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. Of course the Turners were excellent as we know. His later work showed expression and abstraction that other artists didn’t use for half a century.

Late in the afternoon we walked to Westminster Abbey for the Evensong Service. In May we missed it and attended one at Westminster Cathedral (Catholic). However, today being Sunday the Abbey is open for worship with no tourists taking snapshots. It was just us (and several hundred other folks), the choir, and the organ. What beautiful music! Some of the boys in the choir are as young as 6 years old. It was a great way to end the afternoon.

That was followed by dinner in a pub we visited in May and a ride home via the Tube and bus. Only ten more days until we return to Seattle!

Paul

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