confetti in Hyde Park

We went to Hyde Park for the Royal Wedding. Couldn't stomach the crowds on the Mall. This is the moment when the happy married couple left Westminster and they shot confetti into the air. Quite atmospheric.

Hyde Park Corner

The subway at Hyde Park Corner (that is, the underground walking paths and not the tube) is decorated with these murals depicting the lives of important dead men. I think Wellington is in here somewhere. I don't remember whose life this one is supposed to represent, but I liked the crowd scene with the selectively colored-in people. I'm impressed that these murals don't seem to have suffered at the hands of graffiti artists at all.

America

At the Albert Memorial, statues at each of the four corners depict different regions of the world. This is the one for the Americas, which basically means North America, as far I can tell. Here we see an oddly Grecian-looking American Indian "chief" who appears to be riding a buffalo (pretty sure that never happened). There's also a Daniel Boone type frontiersman round the other side.

After the rain

A power station glowing in the sun after a burst of afternoon rain. This is taken looking southwest from the Hyde Park area. Anyone know where that power station is? It might be the Battersea Power Station, and it's in about the right place, though it looks like it's missing the back two smokestacks.