Reflections photographed in Helsinki earlier this year.
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Ladies of Elsinor
Ladies of Elsinor
We had a mini tour of Scandinavia last week. These people were watching us in the Maritime Museum at Elsinor.
Landscape from the edge of the world
The narrow spine of Rubha na Cille, the headland of the hermit’s cell, near Tayvallich is characterised by these stacks and pillars of rock, giving the land an almost unearthly feel. This manipulation is deliberately low-toned to emphasise the strangeness of walking through the landscape.
A wee snippet from Dunfermline Abbey
I was in Fife for a course last week and managed to make a flying visit to the Abbey before it closed. It being Fife, the beggars took my money before telling me the place was closing in five minutes. Anyway, a quickly-snatched photo on the phone, no less, gives you an impression of the sheer quality of the Norman architecture here. I shall return.
Coffee on Hope Street
A grab on the phone when picking up a coffee in Glasgow on Friday.
Crackle fire
Found lurking in the drafts folder. Hope you like it.
Loch Buic
Out for a frosty walk yesterday, this was the view of the pretty Loch Buic in Knapdale. No beavers present at the time of taking this, but there were a family of five whooper swans feeding halfway down the far shore.
Pont Llanelltyd
While my son and grandson were skimming stone a wee bit downstream from here on our recent holiday to North Wales, I made some photos of the ancient bridge. This is the one I like best.
Shunting No 12 “Joan”
Coupling Joan to her train at Llanfair Caereinion.
No 12 “Joan”
No 12 “Joan” is an engine on the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway. No 12 “Joan” is also named for my maternal grandmother, Joan Mildred Simmons (nee Henzell) and was one of a number of steam engines which were used to haul sugar cane to the factory on Antigua. I visited the WLLR on their recent steam gala and was lucky enough to ride on the footplate on a scheduled service.
To find out more about this rather wonderful heritage railway, visit www.wllr.org.uk. To enjoy the trains, visit the railway!
