Simple Pleasures in the Springtime Sunshine (1)

Exploring the rock pools at low tide.

Mush!

A beautiful young Husky with his "saddle bags"

Retail Therapy

Two young bag ladies.

The Water Tower

Rising to a height of 24 metres, The Water Tower (2000) by William Pye, 

stands on Roald Dahl Plass, the vast Plaza outside the Millennium Centre.

As waves of water flow down the highly polished face of the tower display an ever changing, impressionistic, reflection of the surrounding buildings and passers-by.

The Wales Millennium Centre

The inscription emblazoned above the main entrance to The Wales Millennium Centre

is in two parts

The left hand side of the inscription is in Welsh and reads,

"Creu gwir

Fel gwydr

Offwrnais awen." 

While the right hand side is in English and reads,

"In these stones

Horizons

Sing."

Click Here to hear these two inscriptions in context

High Visibility in Cardiff Bay

The Pierhead Building, rebuilt 1897 following destruction by fire of the original in 1892, 

is one of the iconic buildings preserved in the massive regeneration of the Cardiff Bay Dock area.

In 2010 it opened to the public as a museum and exhibition venue dealing with Welsh history.

It was joined on the Pierhead by
The Wales Millenium Arts Centre, completed in 2009.
(more details of this tomorrow)

Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It's off to work we go.

I've been in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, for a few days this week.

But the world over, the early morning trudge to work is pretty much the same.

Twin Turrets.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

It's a man's world.

Be it ever so ramshackle, 

there's very little to beat the pleasures of a man's shed.

Graveyards (2)

See yesterday's post.