SuperBloom At The Tower!

That was the plan. Fill the moats with wildflowers for the Jubilee. Sell tickets. People will buy them and come to see the color and wonder. We did. The spring drought pretty much rained on this parade, so to speak, and the Tower authorities even refunded all the tickets sold before June 15th. Which we gratefully accepted. But we went to see the SuperBloom anyway, partly for laughs, and partly because it was not that far out of the way.

Theory

Moat, walls, and towers

Imposing place; we've visited enough times before

Sadly, not much in the way of a superbloom; even the grass looks
a bit pekid

An industrious 10 year old could probably pick them all in one day

We figure the guy who thought up the Marble Arch Mound 
subsequently got a job with the Tower and had this great idea...

Just about the time we were leaving, a cannon
began firing, repeatedly...

We surmised, correctly, the this had something to do
with the Horse Guard Parade and the Jubilee; I lost
count but I expect the cannon(s?) fired 75 times

We made our way back past this imposing monument,
which I've yet to identify, to the Tower Hill station and
then points west

Stopping at the Inns of Court to see if we could peek in at The
Temple (closed: holiday; duh...)

Past the Royal Courts, also closed

To the Strand, where thousands of Britons were returning
from the Horse Guards thing; and to Somerset House and the
Courtauld Gallery, both of which were, thankfully, open, or I
(cruise director for the day) would have been in really big trouble