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I got soaked this afternoon.
Then there was just a slight breeze.
I saw the clouds gathering again.
False alarm…
Never a dull moment.
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August 7, 2017 | Categories: Cityscape, Glasgow, Photography, Scotland, Travel | Tags: Kelvingrove Park | Leave a comment
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A wet summer Sunday is as good a day as any for a walk in the Botanic Gardens, which this year celebrates its 200th birthday. Today I noticed something I hadn’t spotted before: the city’s motto Let Glasgow Flourish and its Coat of Arms sculpted into the wall of a building just inside the Gt Western Road/Byres Road entrance, complete with the tree that never grew, the fish that never swam, the bird that never flew and the bell that never rang.
For the story behind the City of Glasgow’s Coat of Arms, see here.
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July 9, 2017 | Categories: Cityscape, Glasgow, Nature, parkscape, Photography, Scotland, Travel | Tags: Botanic Gardens, flowers, Let Glasgow Fourish | 1 Comment
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I had to go and get some keys cut up at Anniesland, but the hint of rain had made the air so fresh that I took the waterproofs and set off for a four-hour walk through Glasgow’s West End.
And sure enough, by the time I’d come out of the hardware shop, the drizzle was on. I braved it for a few minutes but finally stopped to take shelter under some trees and don the waterproofs. It occurred to me that I’d passed this pond so often along Great Western Road, but had never taken a closer look.
On my way back were the colourful scenes at the front of tenement blocks.
No walk though the West End is complete without a stopover at Hargan’s Dairy. Re-exposed to the elements for almost a decade now, the 1960s lettering is peeling fast.
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July 6, 2017 | Categories: Cityscape, Nature, Photography, Scotland, Travel | Tags: Bingham's Pond, Glasgow, Glasgow's West End, Hargan's dairy, plants and flowers, rain | Leave a comment
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… the Scottish seaside 😎
In the best possible company 😉
surrounded by welcoming signs 😳
Guarded by sentinels
and picnicking with the seagulls 😲
Some find it hot…
Others feel the chill
And some go paddling
Homeward bound at dusk
exhausted 😴😴😴
PS Shoulder out of action for another 6-9 months, making do with my phone.
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May 7, 2017 | Categories: landscape, Nature, Photography, Scotland, seascape, Travel | Tags: Ayrshire, iphone snapshots, seagulls, seaside, sun, Troon | Leave a comment
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May 13, 2016 | Categories: Isle of Skye, landscape, Nature, Photography, Scotland, Travel | Tags: Elgol, mountains, rocks, seascape, sunset, water | Leave a comment
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May 2, 2016 | Categories: Isle of Skye, landscape, Lochscape, Nature, Photography, Scotland, Travel | Tags: mountains, Sligachan, snow, sunrise | 2 Comments
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Clouds, rain and sunshine come and go in the ever-changing light of Skye.
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May 1, 2016 | Categories: Isle of Skye, landscape, Lochscape, Nature, Photography, Scotland, Travel | Tags: clouds, mountains, Old Man of Storr, transience | 2 Comments
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Neist Point Lighthouse at the tip. Beyond, the islands of North and South Uist, and then the Atlantic Ocean. Wet, windy and wonderful.
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May 1, 2016 | Categories: Isle of Skye, landscape, Nature, Photography, Scotland, seascape, Travel | Tags: lighthouse, Neist Point, water | 4 Comments
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April 30, 2016 | Categories: Isle of Skye, landscape, Nature, Photography, Scotland, seascape, Travel | Tags: beaches, night, Talisker, water | Leave a comment
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April 28, 2016 | Categories: Isle of Skye, landscape, Nature, Photography, Scotland, seascape, Travel | Tags: beaches, sunset, Talisker, water | 2 Comments
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evening at the old Sligacidge
one morning at the old Sligachan Bridge
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April 27, 2016 | Categories: Isle of Skye, landscape, Scotland, Travel | Tags: bridges, evening, morning, mountains, river, snow | 5 Comments
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In a matter of minutes, the clouds moved, the sky changed, the sun appeared, and the landscape changed from this:
to this:
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April 24, 2016 | Categories: Isle of Skye, landscape, Nature, Photography, Scotland, Travel | Tags: clouds, mountains, weather | 2 Comments
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The journey from Glasgow to Skye isn’t all that long as far as drives go, but it could take forever because of the concentration of stunning places to see along the way: a landscape photography paradise.
The odd thing about that part of Scotland – especially on breezy mornings at sunrise – is that it can be colder at any time of year than a Siberian winter: the wind chill factor. A sturdy tripod is obligatory, along with windproof and water-resistant everything.
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April 24, 2016 | Categories: Isle of Skye, landscape, Nature, Photography, Scotland, Travel | Tags: mountains, sunrise | 3 Comments
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The sun shone
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October 4, 2015 | Categories: Cityscape, Glasgow, Nature, Scotland | Tags: autumn colours, cityscape, flowers, gardens | Leave a comment
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first bus in the morning mist
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October 4, 2015 | Categories: Cityscape, Glasgow, Scotland | Tags: cityscape, morning | Leave a comment
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At Partick train station
A view from the creative zone, 11th floor of Livingston Tower
That Wall
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August 31, 2015 | Categories: Glasgow, Scotland | Tags: cityscape, dawn | Leave a comment
Also known as thrift
Sea Pink
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July 14, 2015 | Categories: landscape, Lochscape, Nature, Scotland | Tags: Scotland's flora, Sea Pink, thrift, wildflowers | Leave a comment
in yer mooth she staps a leid
naebody kens, in yer hert a stane
(Janet Paisley)
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June 21, 2015 | Categories: Architecture, Scotland, Travel | Tags: Auld Reekie, Edinburgh, old buildings, stones | Leave a comment
liquid refreshment
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June 19, 2015 | Categories: landscape, Nature, Photography, Scotland, Travel | Tags: Glencoe, waterfall, winter | Leave a comment
