All Souls College, Oxford

The melancholy feel that this picture (which was runner-up in a photographic competition run by volunteers at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London in 2011, and a print of which is on the wall in the cafeteria there) has to it is appropriate.

The building in the background, formerly a watermill, was then an hotel and was where Shirley and I stayed in August that year, knowing full well that it would be Our Last Summer. Our room was only just large enough for us and the elephant in it.

The melancholy is what you feel because of your own associations. It doesn't feel that way to me, having looked at it without the knowledge of this being where you stayed together.

Thanks for posting your wonderful picture to

www.ipernity.com/group/buildings

Beautiful light and frame in the frame composition.