More blossom

… opposite the railway station. This picture is a few weeks old; the daffodils look pretty dreary at the moment, and will soon be gone.

Surrounded

 

or almost, as there are gaps in the walls, and strangely there are very few daffodils planted below the Nunnery Lane section of the fortifications. The 2010 photograph above was taken near Walmgate Bar  on the east of York, whilst the one below, taken today, looks towards Micklegate Bar  on the south.

Wall to wall …

but no carpet of daffodils on the embankment at this time of year.  For that, try this earlier post. These slits in the walls both protected the archers defending the city and gave them a wide field of fire against the enemy.

Walmgate Bar daffs, York

Every embankment is covered in them. Below is the Hotel de Ville of Compiègne, France, 50 miles north of Paris, where we spent last week visiting friends. This is the town where Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians and handed over to the English.

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