Rainy Dawn
Craig flying between the mustard fields before going into warp speed.
Atlas: “I’m told you’re leaving on a jet plane and won’t be coming back again?”
I’ll come back next year, Altas!
Buzzing for breakfast
Max Headroom
No explanation
“We’ll miss you, pesky Paparazzo!”
I’ll miss you too, Freyja and Atlas!
Sunset
Sunrise
We visited Happenheim today. It has a lot of medieval half-timber buildings.
A piece of a Roman road with medieval ballards
The library was open
Not Even!
Cat on a hot clay roof
A witch, also
Rathaus
The church from the castle
Side-view panorama of the church
Dusk
Bedtime
Dawn
Sunrise
Neighbor chickens
Atlas Kitty enjoying the morning sun
The trees are greening
Built in 1894
Easy Rider in Bruchmühlbach
Lavender Gist
Sunset
Dawn
Sunrise
A Peacock Butterfly with a piece of its wing missing
I didn’t do it! I swear! I didn’t bite the peacock butterfly.
Eurasian Blackbird
Squirrel Nutkin again
European Robin
European Robin in silhouette
Gray Heron overhead
Atlas: “Why don’t you ever bring any of those birdies home for me, Paparazzo?”
Goldcrest
Freyja: “What about me?”
Illusive Eurasian Jay
Tree over the trail
Sunset
Bedtime
Dawn
Sunrise
She will have to explain this character in a comment. She told me about him, but I’m sure I would mix it all up.
I spent a delightful last day in Dundee walking around with Shey and John. We visited St Paul’s Cathedral, a museum, and the V&A. Then I stayed in the V&A until it was time to catch the bus to Edinburgh.
St. Paul’s Cathedral
The musem had excellent history of Dundee and Scotland.
This is an old movie theater turned into a performing arts space. John said the Lone Ranger visited the theater when he was five.
Precarious tagging
The gull on the streetlight was eyeing the man’s food.
Then we walked around in the old graveyard. The oldest headstones are from the late 1700s.
A lot of the graves had fascinating stone engravings.
The V&A us a wonderful place to hang out.
The have great exhibits
I was sitting in front of a window that leans out over the water.
On my walk to the bus stop
Caught a bus to the airport in Edinburgh
Spitfire outside the Airport Hilton in Edinburgh
Sunset
Dusk
Gigi asked if I was ever going home. There was an interesting question after I woke up to text messages that my flight to Frankfurt was canceled and had been rescheduled to fly out of Edinburgh to Zürich on Sunday and the fly from Zürich to Frankfurt on Monday morning. The problem with that schedule was I was scheduled to fly from Frankfurt to the States on Monday morning, also.
The reason the flight was canceled was due to a strike by the German airline workers on Friday. Which was planned to create major disruptions for people traveling back home from Easter break. To make a long story short, my flight back to the States has been moved forward a week so I could stick with the new flight schedule if I had to, because flights and hotels were filling up and prices were going up on whatever was left by the minute. After a lot of searching, I got a better scheduled flight back to Frankfurt on Saturday.
Freyja will be happy to get another week of morning walks in.
John gave me a tour of the Verdant Works Museum, and gave me an excellent history of the jute milling industry that made Dundee a boom town in the 19th century. Visit the Verdant Works Museum website for the history of the rise and fall of jute milling in Dundee in the 19th and 20th centuries: https://www.dundeeheritagetrust.co.uk/attraction/verdant-works/
Mostly women and children worked in the mills
Then we went up to the top of the Law, which gives people a 360 view of Dundee and the surrounding area below.
A little over a 180º view
Magpie at Law
The Discovery
Museum
The HMS Unicorn
Gray Heron trying to blend in
Dawn
Stretching wing at dawn
Sunrise
Synchronized seagull sleeping
Great architecture
This high school is as old as it looks.
The post office building
Museum
Grave yard bunny
Where North Sea oil rigs are decommissioned
European Starling
Starling and the Gull
Squirrel on Shey’s back fence
House Sparrow
Dunnock
Ruddy Turnstone
Eurpean Herring Gull
Gray Herron
Sunset
I had no five, gee
At twenty-eight thousand feet
‘Twas all Greek to me
Dawn
Sunrise
A cute little spider paid me a visit this morning.
Eve anjoying attention this morning.
“Hey! Where dii my headrest go?”
Never get lost.
Steep streets around the church
Sunrise
Laurie called me early this morning because Marble Kitty was having problems breathing. She took her to an emergency vet, and Marble had fluid pressing on her lungs. The vet removed the fluid and Marble had a collpsed lung with a mass in it. A long story short, she didn’t make it. Sadly we lost one of the sweetest kitties.
Between back and forth with Laurie on Marble’s condition, Marina, Socrotis and I went out to buy bread, and then in the afternoon we went to dinner in a restaurant by the sea.
It’s been raining on and off all day, and the area has received “buckets of rain” over the past few months, so the vegetation is green and wildflowers are blooming everywhere.
Dinner
View from the table
Local black cat
Long Legged Buzzard
Assissin Bug
Local frogs
We heard a chirping sound that sounded like a bird, but it was coming from under a concrete slab, and Merlin Bird ID could not identify what it was. Marina looked under the concrete but could see anything. I took photos under the concrete, and after I processed the photo, I found the frog on the right-hand photo with its head sticking up out of the water.
Houses with a great view
Handicap access to the water
This sweet dog came out to greet us
Sunset to the east
Cool lights over the dining room table in the Airbnb I’m staying in down the road from Marina and Socrotis.
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