*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2025.01.11 ***

Good morning to everyone wherever you are in the world...sorry - got flu, too ill to post anything.

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Get well soon!

Rotten weather here, so no new pictures. Here are some pictures of a rural complex I photographed several years ago. It is now being restored. I have tacked on a couple of pictures of how it was, before the restoration started.

It is good that the complexed has been saved, but it is less photogenic now.

Walk in old town

It's snowing raining here so in order to not fall into despair I'm looking at week old photos:

Ice rink in old town:

Town hall square, christmas market was closed after christmas but I like new look, no more of those ugly sales boxes:

Another view of town hall square:

Initially it was promised more snow but by the time I arrived in old town sky started to clear up:

Entry to handcraft shops:

Bit away from tourist spots and streets are mostly empty:

Serving suggestion

Just one phone picture this week

Dalwhinnie suggest to serve this whisky cold. So we put it in our walk-in-fridge.
Worked perfectly :-)
Cheers!

Winter walk

Great idea.

That ceiling is amazing...

Beautiful and peaceful.

There's a lot of flu going around at the moment here too :-(
I've been lucky so far, or maybe the flu vaccine is just working well.

Rotten if you get it , hope you get better soon !

A good set. Especially like these 3.
They have a good feeling to them; colours and composition add to the mood

Castle of Light

More from our visit to Edinburgh. Being January, it was dark for about half of the time we spent there, excluding actual sleep time. But there was plenty to lighten the darkness.

Greyfriars Kirkyard

Looking back to the castle and Tolbooth Kirk

The same view next morning. The kirkyard is well known for its graves of famous scots, including John and William Adam (architects), William McGonegall (poet), William Smellie (editor of the Encyclopedia Brittanica) and mant other leading enlightenment figures. Also the famous Greyfriars Bobby dog. Sadly the grave of John Hutton, 'Father of modern Geology', was in a locked area.

Princes Street gardens

West Bow, Victoria Street

aka Diagon Alley. There were throngs of tourists there day and night taking Harry Potter themed selfies! Indeed HP is a huge thing in Edinburgh, with JK Rowling supposedly having written the first novels in one of the cafes in this street, and many locations reputedly being inspiration for places in the stories.

Screeeaaam!

The Walter Scott Monument - reputedly the second largest monument to a writer in the world. The fairground ride behind seemed to be operating all day and evening, and at a given point could be guaranteed to result in screams echoing through the night sky as it picked up speed. not one for me!

Cityscape

From left to right; Princes Street gardens, Scott Monument, Balmoral Hotel and Clock tower, Waverley station, Bank of Scotland building.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you get over it quickly.

Nice pastel coloured light in this one. I often have mixed feelings about restorations. Necessary to the survival of these places, but takes away the character.

This is pretty. A modern day Bruegel.

Slàinte!
I've passed Dalwhinnie distillery a couple of times over the holiday season and can confirm it's the coldest place on the A9!

Aww... that looks cold.

Somehow, someway it appeals to me most, even though others are great too.

I believe it's the most photographed view in Edinburgh!

The ceiling is quite amazing. I like the empty street with the snow still white and pure.

I always imagined it got very cold with lots of snow up where you are.

The bottle is not full. Did you take a tipple before making this picture?

Wet, foggy, with slushy snow. Still you made an interesting picture.