Snow! Well, there was a couple of weekends back anyway. I can't resist the stuff for some reason, so out I went.
There wasn't a lot of the stuff, but just enough to make it look all bonnie and glowing and that:
Now, usually on a Saturday night you don't go up Calton Hill, for health and safety reasons. Not the cruisers so much, they're harmless enough, but because it's an occasional hangout for real properly nasty types. However, it were freezing. Nasty types lose their powers below about 2ºC, I've heard. Anyway, I saw a few people of the non-bam variety heading up, and the hill really suits harsh weather, so...
It was worth the slippery climb:
Some of the aforementioned non-bams in the distance:
The snow doing its hush-all-over-the-world thing:
I get really fed up with Edinburgh sometimes, but now and again it reveals some serious charm and beauty. It's not so bad:
All the world seems in tune on a Spring afternoon, when we're poisoning pigeons in the park.