Sundown

The sun sets over the Western Harbour.

Flood Works

The Water of Leith at the bridge on Newhaven Road.  They are considerably narrowing the stream and building up the bank.  It seldom floods but has caused a fair bit of damage in the past.

Head Office

The Bank of Scotland on the Mound.

Chick

This fellow was wandering around in an urban environment and I was a bit concerned that the gulls would get it.  Then when you look at the feet, it is a gull,  I think. They are just a menace in the city. You can see where the dinosaurs went.

Parade

Marching down the Royal Mile and passing the Tollbooth, headed for Holyrood Pasrk.  Last of the events for Armed Services Weekend.  The bands here are obviously not military.

Newhaven Dusk

The last of the light this evening.

New Town Door

A classic combination of door and lamp in the West End.

Tony

We haven't featured Tony for a while.  here he is as evening falls.  Looks like he is sitting in a nest having gathered some debris.  At this point the walkway is an elevated construction.

10th Dan

George Kerr runs the "Club" next door to work.  A gymnasium and judo centre.  He is the president of the British Judo Association and about to get his CBE at a Holyrood investiture.

Midsummer

More like midnight.  The docks development celebrating the longest day (and certainly the wettest for some time).

The Forth

Looking across the Forth from Newhaven to the islands and Fife.

Customs House

The old Leith customs house beside the Water of Leith as it enters the docks.  Used for storage by the National Galleries.

Bike

Work Garden

Like the economy the "work garden" isn't doing so well this year, blooming but not in profusion.

Basement

The large and impressive houses of the New Town have basements, but not entirely subterranean, below street level but open.  This would have been the kitchens and household business sections of the house. Today they are likely to be separate dwelings or offices.  This modest frontage is the home of the Edinburgh International Book Festival in Charlotte Square. http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/

Gallery Lamp

Another lamp, this one outside the Scottish National Gallery.

Open Day

After the wash out at the weekend here is somewhere you can be sure to be dry and warm. Last year there was a free purvey as well. Highly recommended.

Nowhere to go?

Looks like it hasn't moved in a long while.  Nice little flowers though.

Baaa

Out for a walk in Edinburgh's lung, the Pentlands, too misty to photograph Edinburgh.  Here are the locals instead.

Leith Gala

Easily the wettest day for the Gala I can remember. Some spectators brave the rain, but not seated. Some performers carry on regardless, some drier than others, "Exit the Dragon - Wet" and a "knitted tree".

Leith Festival

The Festival is upon us.  http://www.leithfestival.com/

Newhaven Harbour

The harbour from the breakwater.

Carved in Stone

Joseph Lister's old residence in Charlotte Square.  For anyone who doesn't know who he is this is the Wikipedia entry  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister,_1st_Baron_Lister

Petit Paris

A little touch of Paris appeared today at the auto shop next door.

Boswall Road

Boswall House in Trinity has a unique iron railing which was once a decorative balustrade on the liner Aquatania.

Sundown

Back to the Western Harbour in Leith as the sun goes down on Platinum point.

Granton

Sticking with the new builds, this is by Granton Harbour on the old industrial site that was reclaimed from the Forth in the sixties. This was the development that left the old lighthouse stranded from the water. You can see the lighthouse just to the right of the flats.

In yesterday's post the long harbour wall of the old Leith Docks is the dark line at the bottom of the buildings.  Evey so often one of these iron plates is embedded in the structure measuring from Newhaven Harbour.

Platinum Point

The Western Harbour development seen from the seafront at Trinity.

King of the Hill