Those who have spent time in Manchester over the last few years may recognise here components of the disassembled Santa which graces Albert Square, outside the Town Hall, each year. It was being constructed today. But come on! It’s October still!!
Heavens! Can it get more exciting than this? The rain. The puddles. The surface of some random street near home. It’s that late October, early winter feeling, and it ain’t going away.
A dull day today in every sense. Damp grey weather in Hebden Bridge and I spent almost the whole day indoors, teaching online. So there was little to inspire the photography. This shot has little artistic merit I know, but I chose it to show how, now the clocks have gone back, it’s getting dark well early — and there’s much more darkness to come of course, before the year turns.
Toompea is the district of Tallinn’s old town elevated up on a hill. Two birds with one stone — the ‘autumn leaves’ shot and also a pleasant district of the pleasant city I currently reside in. In fact this is right next door to the Estonian parliament. Why don’t they feel the need to block it off with fences and roadblocks like they do in London or Washington? I dunno, perhaps because their government aren’t a bunch of assholes? Just a thought.
Estonia becomes the 24th country to feature on this blog [*] and it makes an impressive debut. Tallinn is one of Europe’s smaller capitals, with a population of about 450,000. The well-lit church is St. Olav’s cathedral, which when it was built in the 16th century, may have been the tallest building in the world. This shot was taken from my hotel room — I’ve had worse views.
[*] seeing as you mentioned it, the countries have been, in order of first appearance: UK, Finland, Russia, Norway, Netherlands. Denmark, USA, Egypt/Sudan, Kenya, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Turkey, Lebanon, Sweden, Italy, Vatican City, Croatia, France, Tanzania and now Estonia.
Of course the houses aren’t really in the treetops. Or are they? This is Hebden Bridge…
A well-lit moment this afternoon. I guess if I keep doing this long enough, and try not to repeat myself, there exists some theoretical point in the future at which the whole town of Hebden Bridge will have been documented.
Little seems to have happened to the site of the old BBC building since the structure was removed three years ago. My confident (but wholly ironic) prediction that it might get turned into eco-friendly affordable housing seems as far away as ever.
If this shot illustrates anything it at least proves that I do occasionally get my lazy butt into Manchester before 9am in the morning. And that at such times there, the light can be very good.
When in Liverpool, go see the Mersey. Although in the end that’s just marketing of a sort. After all, no one has a sudden urge to go see the Mersey when they visit, say, Stockport (another town that this river runs through).
Being 42 