Amelia's photos

The world’s only rotating boat lift, The Falkirk Wheel links the Forth & Clyde Canal to the Union Canal 35 metres above, allowing vessels to sail through the sky thanks to a unique fusion of art and engineering – and the same power it would take to boil eight kettles. It really is a wonderful piece of engineering. The first PiP shows the wheel just starting to lift a tour boat on the left and lower another tour boat, which is almost at the top level, on the right. The second pip shows the tour boat on the right being lowered down and the the other tour boat being taken to the top.

SC56 - Post July 30 - Text, number or characters A short stay in Cardiff for the weekend enabled us to visit Aerospace Bristol, the home of Concorde. The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a retired Franco-British supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). The first prototype flight took off from Toulouse on 2 March 1969. Concorde entered service on 21 January of 1976 with Air France from Paris-Roissy and British Airways from London Heathrow. Transatlantic flights were the main market, to Washington Dulles from 24 May, and to New York JFK from 17 October 1977. On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590 crashed shortly after take-off with all 109 occupants and four on ground killed, the only fatal incident involving Concorde, and commercial service was suspended until November 2001. Concorde aircraft were retired in 2003 after 27 years of commercial operations. Courtesy of Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde

This canal boat was entering a lock leading from the Forth and Clyde Canal into the Falkirk Wheel basin. We watched as it was taken up to the next level, together with a tour boat, to the Wheel.

A rainy morning at the site kept everyone in the cafe or under awnings. The Kelpies still looked magnificent even in this dull weather. The first PiP shows the dramatic scenery behind The Kelpies. The second PiP shows The Kelpies in sunshine, but the hills behind have disappeared under clouds. The presence of people adds scale to the horses.

SC55 - post July 23 - a quote, saying or poetry PiP1: Hoverfly on Hemerocallis PiP 2: Hoverfly on Sanguisorba PiP Peacock butterlfy on Buddleia All these photos came from my garden today. I have had a lot of work to do since we came back ftom holiday a week ago, coping with the effects of storms, torrential rain and very windy conditions. Other suitable quotes include "Garden as though you will live forever." - William Kent. “Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.” – Rudyard Kipling. "Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well." - Monty Don

Early Sunday morning before the traffic gets busy.

I's just possible to see the old (yellow) lighthouse on Inchkeith Island in the far distance in this photo. The island lies in the midst of the Firth of Forth, midway between Kirkcaldy to the north and Leith to the south. Due to the undulation of the Fife coast it lies substantially closer to Fife rather than Midlothian. In July 1561, Mary, Queen of Scots made Robert Anstruther captain of the island, in succession to the French Captain Lussaignet.She inspected the garrison, and a stone from the original gateway with "MR" (i.e. Maria Regina) and the date still exists, built into a wall below the lighthouse. The Forth Ports are preparing very ambitious proposals for the creation of Scotland’s largest and best located renewable energy hub on a 175 acre site at the Port of Leith – supporting Scotland’s economic recovery and energy transition plans and the achievement of Scotland’s net zero carbon emissions targets. This £40m private investment will see the creation of a bespoke, riverside marine berth capable of accommodating the world’s largest offshore wind installation vessels. Apparently it has been very noisy for the last few weeks due to pile driving. To find out more about Inchkeith please use this link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchkeith Courtesy of Wikipedia.

Inchkeith Island has a most interesting history. Worth watching on You Tube. The deserted forts and buildings can be seen in the distance . The second video is shorter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQ2U8YtaWc www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxz6oxv5xKs

Granton lighthouse is a shore-based lighthouse located on West Harbour Road in Granton, 2½ miles (4 km) north northwest of the centre of Edinburgh. It was built in 1874 as part of the Northern Lighthouse Stores and Buoy Yard. This was never an operational lighthouse, rather it was used for training purposes and to test new lights before they were transported to be fitted elsewhere.

The iconic East Cottages on Lower Granton Road are a listed row of brick cottages built in the 1850s to accommodate workers in Granton Harbour. The terrace of cottages forms a unique and highly distinctive part of Edinburgh's waterfront. www.facebook.com/WardieBay/photos/a.610857575707078/3608431245949681/?type=3

Taken against the sun, so not so easy to get details.