Betwixt Lakeland & Edinburgh
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Before and after photos of this photographer might have shown a rather pale early-morning face, utterly transformed by a brisk walk and brunch at Edinburgh’s Portobello seaside – now positively glowing.
PS @mikesteeden – I was just thinking of you this morning: hope you’re doing well 🙂
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Winter gradation of light here touches me at some profound level. Perhaps especially glad of light in shortened days there’s a poignant magnification of beauty all around me – light’s calling me to appreciate what is, when it is, wherever it is.
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No matter the hour in Edinburgh, wherever you’re walking home from, whatever the season – hot or cold, wind or calm, there’s always something cheering and inspiring to see along the way. Among tonight’s gifts was the sight of a beautiful young fox, sleek and gorgeous, on the Royal Mile – perhaps too shy and certainly too fleet of foot to oblige with a photo.
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An extraordinary digital art show organised by the Italian Institute of Culture and the Consulate General of Italy, supported by The City of Edinburgh Council, open to the public 2-4 December on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill to coincide with the Christmas Lights 2022. Link here
Same scene, entirely different colours, day, sky and temperature …
After lunch, heading home via Princes Street in its autumnal splendour …
Super evening supper with friends, a very funny couple of hours with P&P at the Edinburgh Lyceum, and then a photogenic walk home …
Warm thanks to friends in both Lakeland and Edinburgh for these wonderfully contrasting photos this morning. ‘On fire’ in the Lakes and ‘under haar’ beneath the Crags – both very atmospheric …
We’re living in tumultuous times – pretty much wherever we live. All of us do well to spend at least some time each day focusing on things that bring us joy, and that has always been the chief intention of this very personal blog. Autumn in Edinburgh – mist and blown gold today – affords daily opportunity to practice that intention.
I’ve made more photos of Edinburgh than I could possibly count, but every day I see new beauty in this city. ‘I wonder if I’ll ever stop being enchanted by Edinburgh?’ – I asked a friend. ‘You won’t,’ was the emphatic reply. ‘Ever.’
‘Hold on to your hat’ was the leitmotif of the day here in windy Edinburgh, ‘and don’t forget a winter coat and scarf.’ Chilly indeed, but beautiful, and vibrant as ever wherever one looks. Autumn colours and early festive lights at The Dome. Shopping. A coffee stop. More photographs. And by early evening glad to be warm, well fed, and home …
Coffee at Edinburgh’s Signet Library (link) in Parliament Square this morning, followed by an amble around some of the usual haunts of the Royal Mile and beyond, on a damp but wonderfully bright morning.
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12.24pm on a beautiful morning at the Old Tolbooth – though the clock tells a different story. I’ll keep a lookout for the clock repairer …
wind in my wheels 🌱 