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Two Winter Days Walking Cambridge

·Cambridge, United Kingdom·#winter#travel#architecture#england#cambridge#street-photography
Several old brick and stone buildings, one with statues, line a street under a bright, partially cloudy sky.

Two winter days walking around Cambridge, with no agenda past covering ground. The first day gave us actual blue sky, and we stayed near the old college core — red brick and stone carving overhead, robed figures set into niches above the street, chapel windows catching the low sun across the way. Everything in that part of town wants you to look up.

The second day went grey and we drifted out into the residential back streets instead, which turned out to be the better half. Orchard Street has a house completely taken over by a vine — dormant this time of year, so it's all bare woody branches, thick as arms in places, climbing past the window shutters and up around the chimney. In summer it's probably just green cover; in January it looks like the house grew antlers.

The rest of the street is a long row of low cottages, patchwork tile roofs, one chimney after another disappearing down the block. A cyclist went past the corner and that was about all the traffic there was.

An old house covered by a large bare-branched plant, with "Orchard Street" signs and a person cycling on the street.Three people walk down a wet street, past a long row of brick houses with varied tile roofs and chimneys.

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