Showing posts with label sunset. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunset. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Oban in November

Cloud reflecting the still-strong sun above Oban Esplanade.
Hi there
I'm cheating a bit. This post is being composed on 16th January 2010 (it would have been my paternal grandmother's birthday today, her 110th at least). But I took the photos on a beautiful November afternoon in 2009, so that's when the post is going in.
In these parts, things often get more dramatic just after sunset.

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

A wee birthday souvenir

View from our excellent table at the Piazza restaurant
Hello again
Yes, I'm cooking here -- post after post after post. Well, there's much to celebrate around here.
For example, a couple of birthdays: the second of August is the birthday of two of my best friends, K.W. back in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and R.L. here in Oban. As I couldn't very easily take K. out -- and she was in the lovely company of her two fantastic sons -- R. got my "treatment".
A couple more views from our table at the Piazza.
We enjoyed an excellent meal at Oban's Piazza, one of two restaurants sitting side by side on Oban's North Pier (the other one's is the celebrated Ee-Usk, the prize-winning fish and seafood restaurant).
Here are a few visual souvenirs of the spectacular sunsets one can enjoy here ...
Peace!

Friday, February 22, 2008

Hello again
I'm forever lagging behind with my photos -- life just passes too quickly. Ah well, ... -- spring is definitely in the air here, after a day or so of rain. Of course the first night with overcast sky had to co-incide with the complete lunar eclipse that would otherwise have been visible here. Bummer!

Here are some impressions from spending a moment recently watching and listening to a group of four Mongolian musicians. I was especially fascinated by their instruments.Ubiquitous trainers and jeans contrast with baroque (traditional?) floral patterns.
I had listened to music from Mongolia only the night before and was fascinated with descriptions of instruments just like these. Serendipitous coincidence!

And here, a sunset captured a few days later from the top end of the Kornhausbrücke. Cheerio!