Day 60: Smokin'

Day 59: Pink Lotus Flower

Day 58: There is a storm a-coming...

Day 57: Coconuts on the beach

Day 56: February in Australia

Day 55: Harrys Cafe de Wheels, Sydney

Day 54: The Opera House at night

Day 53: Sydney Opera House

Day 52: Hong Kong at night

Day 51: Po Lin Monastery

Day 50: Nan Lian Garden

Day 49: Eaton Smart Hotel, Hong Kong

Day 48: Parklands

Day 47: Dawn

Day 46: Getting there

Day 45: St Valentine's

Day 44: Lights on the Abbey Bridge, Paisley

Day 43: The sun just catching the Campsies

Day 42: Dusk

Day 41: Milestones outside the Churchill Theatre, Edinburgh

The carved circles represent people, events and areas:  
      
South milestone, facing Morningside Road                             North milestone, facing Morningside Road      
 (reading top to bottom of pillar):                                            

(1) Chi-Rho, the universal Christian symbol                           (1) The initials M S for Muriel Spark (author)

                                                                                                               / a spark plug / golf tee, ball & club heads

                                                                                                         (golf is said to have first been played on Bruntsfield Links) 

                                                                                                              

(2) The proscenium of the Church Hill Theatre                       (2) Mathematical symbols re John Napier 1550-1617

                                                                                                                 inventor of logarithms

(3) Piano keys and a kipper (Morningside life,                        (3) A Bee - local industry

     apparently!)

(4) a shuttle and thread re linen weavers of                             (4) A Mouse and the Internet
      Tipperlinn


 

Day 40: Hosing a hockey pitch at Bellahouston, strangely

I liked all the criss crosses - the low fence, the high fence and the goal net.

Day 39: The Mitchell Library at Dusk

A Glasgow icon, the Mitchell Library was designed by William B. Whitie and opened in 1911 and so it has just celebrated its centenary. It was established with a bequest from Stephen Mitchell, a wealthy tobacco baron and Andrew Carnegie provided half of the building's construction costs.

Day 38: At the start of a very very frosty day

Balgray Reservoir, aka one of the Barrhead Dams.
In 1845 the Gorbals Gravitation Water Company was established in order to provide a clean water supply to the Gorbals and later to other adjacent areas on the south side of the River Clyde. Balgray Reservoir was constructed between 1860-1865. The reservoir system, served by the Brock Burn and other small streams that ultimately flow into the White Cart Water, was the first ever gravitational scheme in Britain. When full, Balgray Reservoir holds around 1,000 million gallons of water, some of which was frozen this morning!

Day 37: At the end of a very very grey day

Glasgow has been shrouded in fog all day but just as we were coming home, you could see the sky clearing towards the south but some mist still lingering in the valley.

Day 36: Spring is around the corner...

Day 35: Red umbrellas trying to get Red Cross sponsorship

Day 34: Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games reflected

Day 33: The L plates are off! Yay!

Day 32: The Renfrew Ferry

The Renfrew Ferry has been going since 1790 and because of the trade it brought, the ‘right of ferry’ was a cherished privilege, held by Renfrew since medieval times. It may date from when the town became a Royal Burgh in 1396. By the 1830s this was a very busy spot with the ferry operating round the clock, carrying passengers, livestock and goods. On Sunday 8 March 1936 when the new Queen Mary was docked at Clydebank a census recorded that 21,386 passengers, 946 motor cars, 141 motor cycles, 819 pedal cycles and 67 vans had crossed. More recently, in 2010, the Renfrew Ferry was saved from extinction by Silvers Marine who run it using a William E. Munson Company aluminium vessel, capable of carrying 12 passengers, largely on demand.

Day 31: Renfrew Town Hall

Renfrew Town Hall opened in 1872 and was a replacement for the old tolbooth, first built in 1670, which had served as both town hall and jail for two hundred years. However, it wasn't secure and prisoners escaped! It was demolished in 1871. The architect of the new building was James Lamb of Paisley. "Its design is a mix of French and Gothic styles, and it features a square tower one hundred and five feet high with corbelled turrets at each corner." Thanks to a £5.2m modernisation programme the building reopened on 28th January 2012 and caught my eye in the sunshine today, the 31st.