Category: city

Edinburgh Pt. II

On By Fred KingIn 2026, Architecture, Blue Sky, buildings, city, clouds, design, downtown, Edinburgh, Environment, family, Flowers, Human, iPhone 17, Landscape, personal, Personal History, Scotland, Shadows, shapes, Signage, street, Streets, wandering, wandering photographerLeave a comment

The Royal Mile, courtyard adjacent to the Writers Museum.

Followed by: Holyrood Palace, Grayfriars Bobby ( with our daughter doing the ritual ), Various flora.

Next post ( stop ) will be Dublin. We spent three days in Edinburgh, which included going to the Annual Military Tattoo, which was as amazing this time as our first.

Architectural note: Edinburgh is the only major city in the world that does not have or allow skyscrapers. Although the city has an “old town”, the entire city seems old- like stepping back in time.

Edinburgh

On By Fred KingIn 2026, Architecture, Blue Sky, books, buildings, Church, city, clouds, Edinburgh, iPhone 17, Madeleine, people, Scotland, shadow, sky, Streets, Thoughts, Travels, vacation, wandering photographerLeave a comment

Before heading to Ireland we stayed in Edinburgh for three days to see the Tattoo as well as wander around the old city. We stayed right on the Royal Mile, which is one of the oldest, cobblestoned streets in Edinburgh. The Writers Museum was really cool. The building itself was amazing to walk through.

The Royal Mile.

The Writers Museum.

My granddaughter, Madeleine, helping me figure out how to take a panoramic shot on my phone. I understand cameras, but not so much the ones embedded in iPhones.

Live musicians and actors performed all day on the Royal Mile, as it was Fringe Festival time in Edinburgh. This musician is Luke Gajdus. You can catch him on Instagram and YouTube. Our Granddaughter was entranced listening. We stayed till he stopped for the day, just before dusk.

View of the backside of Edinburgh Castle from the rooftop of the Edinburgh Museum

St. Andrews Church.

Along the Royal Mile there are, too many to count, what are called “Closes”, these little walkways between old buildings. Some open up to a courtyard behind the buildings and others are just a pass through to the adjacent street. All have interesting, sometimes historical names.

Keeping Portland Weird

On By Fred KingIn 2012, Art, city, colors, debris, Duck, mural, Nikon D7000, Oregom, Oregon, paint, Portland, street, street art, street photography, Streets, Travels, Uncategorized, wandering, wandering photographerLeave a comment

This was taken a few years ago when I was regularly visiting Portland, OR.

Just a quick note on the ads you are seeing. I’ve avoided allowing ads for ten years. WordPress nudged me a couple of weeks ago so I thought I would give it a try. If it turns out to be a bust or more of an annoyance than it is worth, I’ll figure out a way to turn off the ads. My guess is that only sites that generate a lot of traffic see any sort of monetary reward. My site, although having quite a few Followers, has very little traffic.

Thanks, Bluestar2012.

Thurso, Scotland

On By Fred KingIn 2019, Architecture, Art, blossoms, buildings, chapel, Church, city, clocks, clouds, coast, colors, commerce, design, downtown, Flowers, garden, Houses, Iphone 7, Landscape, nature, Nikon D610, ocean, Purple, Scotland, Signage, sky, street, street art, street photography, Streets, summer, sunrise, sunset, Travels, vacation, wandering, wandering photographer1 Comment

The Blue Moon

On By Fred KingIn 2019, Architecture, buildings, city, colors, commerce, decorations, design, Iphone 7, mural, Music, musicians, rocknroll, Seattle, street, street art, street photography, themes, Thoughts, wandering, wandering photographerLeave a comment

Went to the Blue Moon Tavern last Saturday night. Two local bands were having a record release party. Advertised as Seattle’s ” most infamous bar”. The list of literary figures that have spent time in the bar can be seen on this link. I like the one where Tom Robbins, the author, called Pablo Picasso from the bar and actually got through to him, but Mr. Picasso refused to accept the overseas phone charges. The murals in this post are on the west wall of the exterior of the bar and were taken with my iPhone.

View from the Pike Place Market

On By Fred KingIn Alki Point, Architecture, Blue Sky, boat, buildings, city, Elliott Bay, iPhone 6, Landscape, Mountain, Pike Place Market, Puget Sound, Seattle, sky, street, Streets, summer, Thoughts, Uncategorized, WashingtonLeave a comment

Yesterday, on a Chamber of Commerce weather day, we took our two grandkids to the Pike Place Market to have lunch and to check out the refurbed section of the Market. We traveled by bus from West Seattle; I have to insert that I think comparing NYC Subways and Seattle Metro buses is likely close to happening).

Highlights of the images ( which are all  shot on my iPhone, with the aid of a detachable lens  are: The Wheel, Mt. Rainier, Elliott Bay, Alki Point in West Seattle and the soon-to-become extinct Viaduct/SR99.

One of the highlights of the outing was viewing and contributing to the new Gum Wall!

Anyway, the foray into downtown Seattle for a few of hours was about all my broken down body could endure. The current Seattle agency in charge of tourism promotion of the city seemed to be doing a bang up job as the Market was jam packed, even for a Tuesday!

Where are You?

On By Fred KingIn Brooklyn, city, New York City, Nikon D610, people, portrait, street, Streets, Thoughts, Travels, UncategorizedLeave a comment

In todays world it seems easy to connect/reconnect. Saw this guy texting on the cobblestone streets of DUMBO, in Brooklyn. After a few minutes of standing alone the gentleman was reconnected with his companion.