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abbey strand (with rain)

I didn’t actually even own an umbrella until I was 19 years old and was moving from Lubbock to a wetter locale for college. And then I went someplace even wetter for grad school, where I know for sure I kept umbrellas in my car all the time. But then I came back to Lubbock and probably don’t quite recall how to open an umbrella. And when I went to Scotland last year, I didn’t even take an umbrella with me. I’m not a total idiot – I had a waterproof coat with a hood and anyway how can you hold an umbrella AND use a camera?

near Palace of Holyroodhouse
Edinburgh, Scotland
photographed 11.2.2023

st. giles and his arches

These kinds of arches are just about my favorite part of any cathedral I’ve ever been in. And I want to go ahead and apologize to everyone I’ve bumped into while I’m busy looking up instead of paying attention to where I am going.

St. Giles’s Cathedral
Edinburgh, Scotland

photographed 11.2.2023

charcuterie

If you stay in one spot long enough and take a million photos you might get one that nearly works….

Edinburgh, Scotland
photographed 11.2.2023

 

 

catching a bit of sunshine

I mentioned the other day that winter sunsets in Scotland happen every early, at 3:40 pm on the Solstice. Plus it’s a cloudy and drizzly place. So who can blame people who find a scrap of sun to sit in while they read The Lord of the Flies?

(Sunset at the summer Solstice is 10:03 pm. I knew you were wondering.)

Edinburgh, Scotland
photographed 11.2.2023

orange night

I used to have a job (and I thought it was a career, but I was wrong) at the local transit system. This orange building was just across the street from where I worked but I was so caught up in the excitement* of my job that I hardly noticed that it was there.

So maybe it was an apology to the place when I went downtown the other night and made some photos of it.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 11.3.2024

*When I say “excitement” I actually mean abject boredom and rampant sexism. So you know, practically the very same thing.