Christ in Majesty detail

A detail from the stained glass window of Christ in Majesty at Bellanoch Church. Get the full picture here.

Nativity detail

A detail from the stained glass window depicting the Nativity at Bellanoch Church. See link for the whole picture.

Reclining cat

Tinkerbell enjoying the brief spring sunshine at the weekend and resenting the attention of the resident paparazzo.

Spring morning view

This is the view that we woke to this morning; Beinn Bhàn with the rising sun moving ever further north. And, at last, leaves are beginning to burst on some of the trees.

Bellanoch windows

There are two stained glass windows set in lancet openings in the south-west wall of Bellanoch Chuch, both dating from the middle of the twentieth century. The first is of the Nativity and is dedicated “To the glory of God and in loving memory of Mary A McVean and her parents, 1952”.

The second is of Christ in Majesty and is dedicated “to the glory of God and in loving & grateful memory of Elizabeth Grant wife of the Reverend Donald Grant Minister of this Parish from 1921-1944”.

Chair

Out this afternoon for a wander around some beaver lochs and decided to stop into the small church at Bellanoch. This is one of two chairs beside the table at the front of the church. There are probably more woodworm in this chair than worshippers on a Sunday.

Get off my nuts!

A statue in the grounds of the People’s Palace and Winter Gardens in Glasgow Green. I’m not sure if the boy is calling the squirrels or trying to repulse them.

The People’s Palace

A photograph from my perambulation this evening. Made all the more exciting by falling straight down a small valve chamber from which some bugger had lifted the cover.

This is the People’s Palace and Winter Gardens on Glasgow Green. It’s Glasgow’s museum of social history.

 

Flyover arcs

Lovely shapes from two arcing flyovers coming together at the northern end of the Kingston Bridge over the River Clyde in Glasgow.

Through a window

The setting sun on pedestrian barriers outside the window of the Brass Monkey.