Amelia's photos

SC144 - post 27 April - favourite photo taken by you Jan-March, not previously in the Sunday challenge - in square format.

View from the road bridge

Despite its name, the Telford Beacon was designed by James Leslie, a consultant to the famous engineer Thomas Telford. It once sat on the wharf between the tidal harbour and King William IV dock to help guide ships into the dock. When the docks were filled in to make way for the Tay Road Bridge,opened in 1966, the beacon was left standing 135metres from the new shoreline. In 2011 the beacon was in danger of being lost when the bridge ramps were rebuilt to make way for the redevelopment of the area. Dundee City Council took the decision to relocate the beacon to this new location on Black Watch Parade. Dundee Waterfront - Moving the Telford Beacon

It seems that everyone had left this area to sort out something to eat for an evening meal. We passed this long bench 2 days later at about 3p.m. and it was packed on both sides with sunbathers. The weather in Scotland was unseasonably hot last week.

SC143 - post 20 April - Show anything made with wood. As it's also Easter Sunday I have included a stone egg for Easter.

Tay Fins is a science art collaboration between visual artist Fanny Lam Christie and the Sea Mammal Research Unit. This bronze sculpture embodies bottlenose dolphins seen regularly in the Tay Estuary, especially near the mouth of the River Tay at Broughty Ferry. We stood here for a time watching for them, but apparently one is more likely to see them on a summer evening. dolphins.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/fins

SC141 - post 6 April - Seasonal scenes

I shall be visiting this town and indeed this part of the golf course next week. I am so looking forward to the visit to my childhood home.

SC140 - post 30 March - Poster style. I couldn't get this looking good in portrait format, but attempted the 'feeling' of old seaside posters. Posters of all kinds were produced, usually by the railways, to promote tourist spots in Great Britain.

Actually this is a GROYNE. A groyne is an active structure extending from the shore into the sea, most often perpendicular or slightly oblique to the shoreline. The main function of a groyne is catching and trapping part of the sediment moving in a longshore direction in the surf zone. This groyne is catching flint pebbles and quite large pieces of flint in chalk. Some of the wood lower down is heavily weathered, and the construction bolts are very rusty.