Glasgow by night

#Glasgow #Moon

This is something I encountered on my climb up Ben Lawers on Saturday, and it's a phenomenon I've wanted to see for a very long time. The shadowy figure in the middle is called Brocken Spectre and it occurs when your shadow is projected onto cloud lying below you on a mountain. The circles of colour are known as a glory, and these are often, but not always, associated with Brocken Spectre.

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A steam hammer dating from 1915 on Shettleston Road in Glasgow. Steam hammers like this were used in the forge at Parkhead to craft the parts needed to build the ships, trains and other engineering marvels for which Glasgow was then famous.

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Behold, the big #Heron of Kelvingrove park in #Glasgow!

It was surrounded by lots of crows and pigeons who wanted it to go away.

(I saw it catch and eat a big rat the other day... that was quite horrible to watch and really changed how I see them!)

I came across this unusual upside down T-shaped keyhole on the door of a Victorian townhouse in Glasgow today. It's for an Odell Night Latch Key, of the type shown on the right. Patented in 1792, they came in a wide variety of different shapes and you put them through the cross bar of the T and then lifted them up. They'd only open the latch if their shape fitted the inverse shape of the mechanism in the lock itself, which sat on the other side of the door.

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This small, unremarkable-looking tree by the entrance to the herb garden in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens has a surprising and poignant history which starts half a world and more than half a century away.

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