Whereabouts in the Cowgate is that? (I used to live in a flat at the very bottom of St Mary's St and my route to college/work/Sneaky Pete's meant a lot of time spent in the Cowgate. Mostly at ungodly hours and only occasionally being mistaken for the kind of person who might have a pimp!)
Further along towards the Grassmarket, it's been a gap site for many years just at the back of the Central Library and behind Victoria Street. They've found a lot of cow bones and horns there which makes them think there was a butcher or abattoir there at some time, hardly surprising given it's called the Cowgate!
Here you go Kath, the dig is actually very close to Sneaky Pete's, I strolled along again this afternoon just to see, it's right where the white van is parked on the right after you go under George IV Bridge The dig is where the tenements are in this picture taken in the early 1900's, I think they were demolished in the 20's or 30's Re. pimp! Yes, I'd forgotten, there used to be a sauna behind Sneaky Pete's near the back door to the courthouse!
A shot taken in my local train station underpass Parton train station underpass by Alf Branch, on Flickr
This is an example of what you might call 'post hoc interest'. I was going through a pile of pics I took this afternoon (my calves are still aching from the walk!) and noticed this one. Apart from the fact that the section of path I was on is in fact a bridge, I had to look twice... Sign by SteveH, on Flickr No, I did not notice the piece of grass when I took the picture. Or, at least, the effect it appears to have on the name of the bridge owner...
My wife always looks right and left, but I look upwards too... This so old that it was taken before I started using RAW: it is the straight-from-the-camera JPG resized for the website (no adjustment made to levels, contrast, etc.). Sigma 10-20 mm at 10 mm, exposure from hand held incident light meter, camera placed on the granite floor of Padua cathedral (and using the patterns thereon to align it), self timer used as I quickly got out of the shot. All much to the amusement of a priest who had politely said 'no flash', and when he saw what I was trying to do he helpfully held back a school party for the few seconds I needed.
Not so much interesting, but despite being familiar with this brand of bread for years now, it's name still makes me laugh. Taken on the road heading down through Spain a couple of days ago.
The weather today in my part of spain has been quite poor with lots of rain. Looks like tomorrow may be good. I know sunsets are common, but they are hard to resist. This is OOC (RAW to JPG conversion only) from my roof terrace only a short while ago. I didn't have time to wander off to take a better shot.
Can't believe I've never seen this before, only just discovered it in Braid Road, Morningside! The stones in the road mark where the gallows stood for the hanging of Thomas Kelly and Henry O'Neill, the last two highwaymen to be publicly executed in Scotland in 1815.
Sort of interesting. The greenhouses in the gardens of the royal palace just outside Brussels are open to the public once a year in the springtime. It is a popular event if rather a one-way line-walk as you follow a strict path through the glass-houses. This caught my eye and I was a bit astonished because it is all fairly formal. I'm using Flickr to resize as it dates (2012) to a time when I posted things full scale. Serres Royales _13 by Pete, on Flickr
