Or not, depending on my mood
There was certainly water, water everywhere at the farthest Beauly Firth end of the Caledonian Canal yesterday – this tide was out, and the last sea-lock was so full the water was noisily overflowing the top of the lock-gate like a proper waterfall 🙂
My garden is still producing surprises – I think these big round buds may be peonies, or something similar – and so far they look like they might be a luscious deep red when they finally bloom 🙂
Zoom burst tulips for Nancy Merrill’s Photo A Week Challenge: Just for Fun and also Cee’s Flower of the Day 🙂
I don’t (yet!) have a proper photographic lensball like Jez (any perceived hint of covetousness is purely imaginary, honest…!), but when Nancy Merrill posted her Photo A Week Challenge on the topic of ‘glass’ I decided to be creative and experiment with the nearest equivalent I do have to hand at home right now – basically a plain glass paperweight with air bubbles trapped artistically inside the sphere.
Sadly I think there’s far too much going on within this particular ball of glass for it to work as brilliantly I’d hoped, but at least I had fun trying – this is the nearest I got to having the flower even the slightest bit in focus, and I actually kind of like the overall blurry effect… 🙂
Here in the UK our clocks change tonight, formally heralding the beginning of British Summer Time but in reality simply letting us all know that it’s time that Spring has well and truly sprung! 🙂
Another red pelargonium for today’s Cee’s Flower of the Day and also for Nancy Merrill’s Photo a Week Challenge: Red
Apparently there’s been a succession of castles on this site since 1057, although this particular version of Inverness Castle has only been here since 1836. It currently houses the Sherrif Court, so the only time in my life I’ve ever been inside the castle was when I was on jury service, many years ago 🙂
We’ve recently moved from London to Inverness, and have bought a house close to the Northernmost end of the Caledonian Canal… this is the view from Muirtown Locks, the part of the canal we see right at the end of our road 🙂
This afternoon I took a walk further along the path leading towards the mouth of the canal, where it meets the sea of the Beauly Firth…
At the mouth of the canal there is a huge stone welcoming everyone to the Caledonian Canal…
And some interesting sea-worthy structures to photograph…
I can see I’m going to enjoy living in our new home in Inverness! 🙂
The lock keeper’s house at the northern end of the Caledonian Canal at Clachnaharry, Inverness, looking very atmospheric in the late afternoon light…
Stones stacked tightly together make a solid and stable wall… and then one day, a section becomes unceremoniously unstacked and suddenly the wall is no longer solid or stable, or even a wall any more… 😦
