Queens Gallery "Holyrood"

TheTamshee: visited the Queens Gallery @ Holyrood Palace to check out "The Heart Of The Great Alone" charting the ill-fated Antarctic expedition of Robert Falcon Scott aboard the Terra Nova (1910) and a few year later in 1914, Ernest Shackleton embarking on his Transantarctic expedition in the Endurance. Brilliant photography and verse ( The sleeping Bag ) by Herbert Ponting ( Scott ) and Frank Hurley with Shackleton.

Arthur's Seat

TheTamshee: set out early to hike around Salsibury Crags and sit aloft Arthur's Seat to view the city from Edinburgh's highest point.

It was then the easy grassy route down to Dunsapie loch

to watch the Swans struggling to break free from the frozen loch and gain a foot hold on terra ferma.

Looking south over St Margaret's Loch to the distant ruins of St Anthony's Chapel

The history of St Anthony's Chapel then up the Royal Mile to get some quality leek & potato soup at Deacon Brodie's.

Blythe Scott & Hendry Kondracki

Copyright @ Hendry Kondracki
TheTamshee has been checking out some fantastic art @ the Flaubert Gallery in Stockbridge Edinburgh. Click title link for the current feature artist "Blythe Scott" and the equally talented Hendry Kondracki capturing the atomsphere of 9th Avenue on a rainy day.