Where one belongs

These ivy-clad Oxford buildings are in Broad Street, which is what it says on the road sign - a street wide enough for the occasional visiting market, for sitting outdoors with coffee and cake, for large-scale arts events and for protests. Although it was once outside the city walls, and the place for burning protestant bishops, it is now about as establishment a street as is possible. It contains the Sheldonian Theatre, designed by Christopher Wren for the university in the 1660s and used for graduation ceremonies in Latin and concerts (sadly no longer conducted by Handel); three colleges; a large Bodleian library building; the original Ashmolean Museum building; the original Oxford University Press building; the famous Blackwells bookshops and the first ever Oxfam shop.

I've spent quite a bit of time here this weekend. First I was taking pictures of the ivy and the intermittent shadows it cast. Then I started to see other patterns.

This image, I confess, is a stitch of two photos. These two walked past the drainpipe moments apart but not quite as close as this.