PD Smith
@pdsmith.bsky.social
📚City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, Doomsday Men, Einstein, Metaphor & Materiality.
Now writing about cities, detectives and crime.
https://linktr.ee/pd_smith
Now writing about cities, detectives and crime.
https://linktr.ee/pd_smith
The last rose of the year from the garden…
October 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The last rose of the year from the garden…
A great year for sweet corn - today’s lunch fresh from the garden. Delicious!
August 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A great year for sweet corn - today’s lunch fresh from the garden. Delicious!
Fresh from the garden this morning
August 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Fresh from the garden this morning
Nice haul of French beans from the garden today.
August 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Nice haul of French beans from the garden today.
Loved the Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road exhibition at the British Museum. Worth seeing!
www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
July 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Loved the Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road exhibition at the British Museum. Worth seeing!
www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
Just back from a visit to Paris, which is as beautiful and as good for the soul as ever. I’ve posted a few photographic impressions of its streets, buildings, art, people and parks on my Flickr page
www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...
www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...
June 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Just back from a visit to Paris, which is as beautiful and as good for the soul as ever. I’ve posted a few photographic impressions of its streets, buildings, art, people and parks on my Flickr page
www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...
www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...
The Little Lion. Shop sign from 18th-century Paris, in the Carnavalet Museum
June 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Little Lion. Shop sign from 18th-century Paris, in the Carnavalet Museum
The Golden Sun. Shop sign from 18th-century Paris, in the Carnavalet Museum
June 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Golden Sun. Shop sign from 18th-century Paris, in the Carnavalet Museum
People-watching in the Orangerie Museum, Paris, the other day…
June 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
People-watching in the Orangerie Museum, Paris, the other day…
Notre-Dame today. Busy but beautiful…
June 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Notre-Dame today. Busy but beautiful…
Foxglove…such a lovely name
May 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Foxglove…such a lovely name
The alliums are looking good this year…
May 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The alliums are looking good this year…
The peonies are wonderful this year…
May 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The peonies are wonderful this year…
Wonderful evening @TheRoyalOpera last night - three works by Balanchine. A visit inspired by Jennifer Homans’ splendid biography which I reviewed this time last year.
April 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Wonderful evening @TheRoyalOpera last night - three works by Balanchine. A visit inspired by Jennifer Homans’ splendid biography which I reviewed this time last year.
Some pics from a few days in beautiful Bologna, a wonderfully friendly city of elegant porticoes, cobbled streets, delicious food (don’t miss the Tortellini in brodo at Sfoglia Rina), and sky-scraping towers built hundreds of years ago. More on my Flickr account...
March 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Some pics from a few days in beautiful Bologna, a wonderfully friendly city of elegant porticoes, cobbled streets, delicious food (don’t miss the Tortellini in brodo at Sfoglia Rina), and sky-scraping towers built hundreds of years ago. More on my Flickr account...
The edgeworthia is beautiful in the sun this year. Amazing scent too…
March 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The edgeworthia is beautiful in the sun this year. Amazing scent too…
Hello autumn my old friend
October 16, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Hello autumn my old friend
From Prague, we caught the train to Vienna, one of my favourite cities - walkable but with excellent public transport, beautiful buildings, and of course great coffee houses and cakes... More photos of both Prague and Vienna on Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...
October 11, 2024 at 8:26 AM
From Prague, we caught the train to Vienna, one of my favourite cities - walkable but with excellent public transport, beautiful buildings, and of course great coffee houses and cakes... More photos of both Prague and Vienna on Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...
A few days in Prague, which is a beautiful and friendly city, but crowded with people like me: tourists. Some pictures of a few things that caught my eye. More on Instagram...
October 9, 2024 at 8:30 AM
A few days in Prague, which is a beautiful and friendly city, but crowded with people like me: tourists. Some pictures of a few things that caught my eye. More on Instagram...
Nice haul of blueberries from the garden
July 16, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Nice haul of blueberries from the garden
Very much enjoyed Nils Frahm’s Music for London at the Barbican on Saturday.
Fascinated by his use of the glass harmonica - invented by Benjamin Franklin apparently!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_h...
Fascinated by his use of the glass harmonica - invented by Benjamin Franklin apparently!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_h...
July 15, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Very much enjoyed Nils Frahm’s Music for London at the Barbican on Saturday.
Fascinated by his use of the glass harmonica - invented by Benjamin Franklin apparently!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_h...
Fascinated by his use of the glass harmonica - invented by Benjamin Franklin apparently!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_h...
Good to have some sun again after all the rain
July 11, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Good to have some sun again after all the rain