GLASGOW BROOMIELAW TODAY

Where once ships unloaded cargo and people, and industrial goods and emigrants departed from Glasgow now are bushy trees and flower beds.  

This is the Broomielaw today - to be exact, it is the area opposite at the bottom end of Washington Street where I was paying a visit the Clyde Cruising Club office.  There were no ships plying the Clyde here. However moored just out of the picture is the old Renfrew ferry where gigs, I presume, still go on.

Walking up Washington Street to the office block I passed waste ground  - been like that for years. Other old buildings are still in use and being used as, for example, scrap merchants and studios for rock bands (honest!). 

SCOTCH THISTLES

One begins to feel old when one's contemporaries are having their 50th wedding anniversary!

We drove through to Dumferline, Fife, to attend a luncheon of very old friends of Iain's .... friends from long before I arrived on the scene.

  

Thistles in the garden.

 

Colours, pixel by pixel, of the thistles.

Dahlias, picked from the garden, in a vase in the Ladies Washroom.

SUMMER LILIES

A hidden feature of our garden is a bunch of white lilies tucked away behind a holly tree.  I know they are there, and enjoy them, because they are emitting a wonderful fragrance these days.

I dare not move them because they are healthy, increasing in number of flowers and seem to have no problem with slugs.  I wish I could say that about many of the other plants!  They are enjoyed by my neighbour as they are nearer her back door than mine.  That's fine..... Resolution: get some more!

LIMERICK IN THE SUNLIGHT

We have been away in Limerick, on the west coast of Ireland.  The aim was for Iain to attend a meeting at the University of Limerick.  We went a couple of days earlier in order to explore the surrounding country.

These photos were taken in the area called The Burren which is north west of Limerick.  It is geologically interesting with its landscape of limestone rocks.  The weather was lovely as seen in the following photos of the churchyard and an adjacent wall and field.