Real castles around here are often just a stronger building than your neighbours have and owned by the mediaeval chappie with the most sheep and largest bit of swamp. Stirling Castle, however…that looks like a proper castle. I was over in Stirling last week and the sun came out.

Hiked up Ben Ime (just behind The Cobbler in the Arrochar Alps) yesterday. From the top you look down on Loch Lomond, Loch Arklet and Loch Katrine. The forecast was all grey and rainy…oh how wrong it was! Oh the view!

A few random pictures from the past month when I’ve not been posting much: a chapel in the crypt of Glasgow Cathedral, a twisty dead tree in Mugdock Park, an Old Man’s Beard seed head, and a stinkhorn fungus (that really really stank).

Mugdock Park’s just north of Glasgow. I went looking for interesting scenery and found a baby common toad in the grass (which I guess is like a snake-in-the-grass but with legs???)

Various things have been keeping me distracted from both photography and LiveJournal recently. But these are some pictures I took down at Pacific Quay on the Clyde the other week, featuring the Finnieston Crane, the Science Centre, and the Squinty Bridge.

The Squinty Bridge Finnieston Arc

The Science Tower

The Science Centre

The IMAX dome at the Science [...]

Had my gallbladder removed. Just for a laff…

The wounds are actually tiny; the bruising is far more impressive and that’ll be gone in no time. I bet I’ll have trouble finding the scars after that. I believe the one at my belly button is where the camera went in and all the [...]