Kenwood House and Humphry Repton’s landscape gifted to usThe Henry Moore Reclining Figures watch over the meadowOur space for dreaming, a blanket, and shared food and wineKenwood House calming pictures mirrored; boy feeds a squirrelThe ancient wood, oak, beech & hornbeam, surrounds our pathCamellias, azaleas and rhododendrons border the meadowA feast of pink, red and white, their scents a healing touchLike the Barbara Hepworth sculpture in memory of her son. ,Jackdaws, stock doves and kestrels sing as the afternoon fadesMark their place on trees beside the lake in the leafy shadowsDucks of all nations meet, coots, moorhens, mallard, mandarinCarp, pike, roach & perch their companions just below the surfaceFox chases rabbit into ferns; bright green parakeets, a brief dogfightDisarmed, we’re warmed, stretched, softened, in the summer lightChristopher 2026.