Thursday 30 June 2011

Sundown

The sun sets over the Western Harbour.

Wednesday 29 June 2011

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.

Tuesday 28 June 2011

Head Office

The Bank of Scotland on the Mound.

Monday 27 June 2011

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.

Sunday 26 June 2011

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.

Saturday 25 June 2011

Newhaven Dusk

The last of the light this evening.

Friday 24 June 2011

New Town Door

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

Thursday 23 June 2011

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.

Wednesday 22 June 2011

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.

Tuesday 21 June 2011

Midsummer

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

Monday 20 June 2011

The Forth

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

Sunday 19 June 2011

Customs House

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

Friday 17 June 2011

Work Garden

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

Thursday 16 June 2011

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/

Wednesday 15 June 2011

Gallery Lamp

Another lamp, this one outside the Scottish National Gallery.

Tuesday 14 June 2011

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.

Monday 13 June 2011

Nowhere to go?

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

Sunday 12 June 2011

Baaa

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

Saturday 11 June 2011

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".

Friday 10 June 2011

Thursday 9 June 2011

Newhaven Harbour

The harbour from the breakwater.

Wednesday 8 June 2011

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

Tuesday 7 June 2011

Petit Paris

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

Monday 6 June 2011

Boswall Road

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

Sunday 5 June 2011

Sundown

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

Saturday 4 June 2011

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.

Friday 3 June 2011

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.

Thursday 2 June 2011

Platinum Point

The Western Harbour development seen from the seafront at Trinity.