Kilimanjaro

Late, great breakfast at the fabulous Kilimanjaro Coffee on Nicholson Street this morning. Friendly, warm and welcoming.

Imagine an architectural era of craftsmanship when Edinburgh’s beautiful chimney stacks were built of dressed stone …

You just call out my name, and you know, wherever I am, I’ll come running …

Carole King
for Tapestry, 1971

Honestly, sorely tempted by Beautiful at the Festival Theatre – but for the fifth time? Maybe a little excessive!

2021 – Living beneath Arthur’s Seat. Here’s one from a year ago today – one of those times and a Springtime view that’s engraved on my heart …

A lovely couple of hours in the gardens with my book and camera before supper

An explosion of magnolia

New College School of Divinity on The Mound

Edinburgh Castle, parts of which date back to 1103, and integral to Edinburgh’s World Heritage status, seen from Princes Street Gardens

The Ross Fountain, Princes Street Gardens

St Cuthbert’s Parish Church & St John’s Episcopal Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh

Close-up

To get close-up to Springtime unfolding in nature is to encounter experience of awe and wonder. Every tiny hair and stem and vibrating atom invites me to deep contemplation: why such beauty? Why such variety? Why me, and this capacity that I have, and you have, to experience our environment in such deeply affecting ways? And my sense of gratitude, my awareness and observation, my being here, reaching out and reaching in – is something akin to love …