Entrance

Or, going in this direction, exit from the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Big Fish

The sculpture is on the beach at Crammond. http://www.cramondassociation.org.uk/fish.html

Musselburgh Harbour

Waverley

Waverley Station, the old Post Office building and the Balmoral from Market Street

South Edinburgh

Looking south from Corstorphine Hill.

Water of Leith

The rain has been heavy but not so bad as had been expected.  The WOL has risen enough to cover the banks and "islands" in the industrial sector of Leith but is far from being in spate.

Rain

Dreich view for a dreich day.  A bit worse than dreich and deteriorating. Met Office has severe weather warnings out for today and tomorrow.  Looking towards Arthur's Seat from Libberton Cemetery.

Lambs House, Leith

Another "Doors Open" visit.  This is in the final stages of a supberb restoration.  It was part of the National Trust for Scotland but not one of their open buildings. It was in a poor state of repair but has been taken over and restored by the architects Groves Raines. It will be both office and home.  The interiors are brilliant (but photography not permitted). http://www.oldleither.com/LambsHousearticle.html

David Octavius Hill

Appropriate for a photo blog.  D O Hill and his partner, Robert Adamson were early pioneers in photography. This weekend is "Doors Open Day" in Edinburgh and this is the Dean Cemetery.  The bust was sculpted by his wife Amelia Paton who is buried alongside him. The mason seems to have made a mistake with the spelling of his middle name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Octavius_Hill

Lion

Spent the afternoon at the Zoo. Taking it easy in the sunshine.

Reflection

Rear window reflection.

Castle in Evening Light

From the roof car park of supermarket in Stockbridge. Pity about the cranes.

Heron

On the River Almond.

Dormer Windows

Maximising space in the terraces in Newhaven Road.

Welcome to Edinburgh

Coming in over the Forth.

Crammond

Yachts moored in the river at Crammond.

Lunch

Water of Leith.  Swans always look so strange when bottom feeding.

Top Floor Flat

In Pitt Street, Leith

Waiting

Kirkgate Shopping Centre in Leith. Tether post is part of the bank security set up.

Victoria Park

Today started a lot cooler with heavy condensation on the car windows. Despite the afternoon sunshine the park is quiet and no takers for the benches.   Too cold. Autumn is here.

Sun Shower

Local Buses

The 11 and the 7 heading out down Newhaven Road.

Tram Tracks

On Princes Street but no trams of course.  You can see in the background that Waterloo Place is still under construction.

Charlotte Square

Financial companies often employ the Corp of Commissionaires as doormen. They are all ex servicemen.

Queen Street

Reduced to one lane in each direction and no cars travelling east, these works have required major changes  with heavy traffic directed along Heriot Row. Edinburgh is just one big confusing building site.

Ameusing

Meuse houses are a particular feature of central Edinburgh and this old one in Nelson Place is always well turned out.

Sherlock Holmes - the Return

Not from the Reichenbach Falls but from the Council Pound. He has been away for 3 years, removed as he was in the way of the new Tram Line. This part has now been scrapped so he gets to come back to his original site in Picardy Place, site of an earlier council fiasco, the demolition of Conan Doyle's house to make way for a roundabout. Great decision!

Post Box

The Post Office came up with the wheeze of painting a box "Gold" in the home towns where an Olympic athlete had struck gold in the games.  This one for Chris Hoy in Hanover Street

Parliament

One of their designer windows at the exit on the Royal Mile.

Graphito

This is on a the boarding of a "development" site in New Street where they demolished the old building used as a car park. The boarding must stretch for 200 metres and last Saturday there were hoards of spray artists all tackling it once.  No idea who organised it but there is now an entire street of this.