A boy in an 'amusement arcade'.

Ayr beach (-7degrees C ).

The 'Barras' - the famous 'flea market' in Glasgow.

Baby Paisley.

Cathkin Braes looking toward Castlemilk housing estate.

Cheetas languishing in Glasgow's prison for animals..er..um..I mean Zoo :-)

A man enjoying the effects of a wee refreshment outside a shop called 'Bagarama'( yes, it sold bags) in the gallowgate. Glasgow has a close relationship with alcohol.

In regard to issues of mental health, Glasgow has some definite ideas about 'care in the community'.

He holds a can of Carlsberg Specila Brew aloft.

A man tries to sell 'microwave egg boilers' in the Barras.

Big tubs or wee tubs? You're spoiled for choice here.

Elaine, love of my life :-)

Finniston crane down by the Clyde. My grandfather worked as a shipyard labourer here and my father spent most of his working life in this area too.

Yes it's Glasgow, even though it doesn't look like it. We are lucky to be surrounded by countryside.

Cigarette ash must be good for the hair:-)

A man dances in George square at a Scottish Independence rally. His arms are raised to symbolise the antlers of the stag as he does the 'highland fling'.

Lucy, my faithfull companion for 17 years, aka as 'Poochkin'.

An old man in Glasgow's 'Fruit market'.

'I can foresee a lighter wallet'.

Paisley, Elaine's granddaughter.

A peacock butterfly feeding on some japonica.

Feeding on some napweed, Nymphalidae vanessa cardui ? Maybe an entomologist will read this.

A staircase in Princess Square in glasgow, a 'shopping mall'. Part of Glasgow's attempt to sell it's self as a 'modern, sophisticated cosmopolitan' city.

A view of the Gorbals.

View from London Road.

Not far from Celtic football ground, perhaps the club could do a little more for the area.

'Tam'

The Syrinx, by William McMillan (1925). I love this statue and the myth of how the birds got their singing voices.

Two woman discuss Salvador Dali's christ of saint john of the cross in Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery.

Some 'orangemen' make their way along Paisley Road West on the south side of Glasgow.

And so do some more.

A well known shop in Queen Street. Much loved by children, at least when I was a nipper :-)

LOL ! :-)

The old parkeeper's house in Queen's Park.

Paisley eats some Cheerios while being hypnotized by the TV :-)

Something for the shopper who has everything.

A sunset, a bird and the planet venus (the white speck at middle upper center).

The Bass Rock off the east coast of Scotland. From the latin for gannets ( sula bassana ) which are it's sole inhabitants .

A rainbow near St Monans in Fife.

Peek a moo.

A robin. This bird's chances of survival from year1 to year2 are given by the formula :
(2-m) /2m where m is average mortality rate of the species. Hopefully, this wee guy doesn't understand algebra.

Daffodils.

They don't call this spot Fernhill for nothing. Background - the Campsies and Dumgoyne.

My Mother and Father, AKA - the dynamic duo.

River Ayr. October 2004

A man leaves a fishmongers

'Chaos as school's heating goes haywire'

How come things aren't like they are in the ads?