JANUS AT THE PORTAL OF THE YEAR

Glasgow is green because the snow has melted! Thank goodness! After a lovely meal last night and a visit next door we were feeling in the need of a good walk to work off the feast of the previous night.

We headed off to the countryside adjacent to where we live and thoroughly enjoyed walking through the woods up to the top of Windy Hill Golf Course.

Here is Iain on the top looking out the city of Glasgow laid out below.

The temperature was a balmy 5 degrees above freezing but the wind was starting to come around from the north, as forecast: we are due another spell of freezing weather. The only thing missing was the primroses and green leaves of spring; very refreshing all the same!

Here is Janus, Roman god of gates and doorways, beginnings and endings, from where we get the month January. He also represents the transition between the countryside and the city. This Photoshoped image should have 2 heads (one facing back to the old year; one facing the new year) but this stone representation only shows the one at this aspect.