Here's looking at you kid.

Walking, standing and lying down

Low wire walking on Plymouth Hoe.

Today's Competition

What is the total number of scaffold poles, fully or partially visible, in this picture?

That is not a lamp post. so don't even think about it.

A great day for an early morning run.

I don't think these soldiers from the Royal Citadel, on Plymouth Hoe, would share that view.

The seashore is a sort of neutral ground,

a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world.

Henry David Thoreau

Plymouth is a very hilly city,

In Winter you can always look from one of the many small hill across the rooftops.
But as the trees come into leaf that view is gradually obscured.

"Cyberspace can't compensate for real space.

We benefit from chatting to people face to face."

Jonathan Sachs

Walking, standing and lying down.

Low level wire walking on the Promenade of Plymouth Hoe.

Early arrivals

The recent very hot weather has added a few degrees to the sea temperature in Plymouth Sound,

so people arrive early for a dip in the sea on the foreshore at Tinside, on Plymouth Hoe.

Someone is sitting in the shade today

because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
                                                                                                        Warren Buffett

 

Life imitating art?

I REMEMBER IT WELL 

From "Gigi" (1958)

 (Lyrics : Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe) 

Honore (Maurice Chevalier) & Mamita (Hermione Gingold)

H: Ah, yes, I remember it well 

That brilliant sky 

M: We had some rain 

H: Those Russian songs 

M: From sunny Spain 

H: You wore a gown of gold 

M: I was all in blue 

H: Am I getting old? 

M: Oh, no, not you 

How strong you were 

How young and gay 

A prince of love 

In every way 

H: Ah, yes, I remember it well

Every picture tells a story.

The weather over the whole of the Christmas Holiday period has been dreadful;

non stop wind and rain.

That is why the wide promenade on Plymouth Hoe is deserted,

when it would normally be crowded with children learning to ride the bikes, skates and scooters

they had received as Christmas presents. 

Here is a more usual scene of the Promenade during the Christmas Period in past years.

Smeaton's Tower on Plymouth Hoe.

This lighthouse was originally built on the Eddystone Reef (14 miles out from Plymouth) in 1759,

at a cost of £40,000, but was taken down in the early 1880s when it was discovered that the sea 

was undermining the rock it was standing on. 

Approximately two thirds of the structure was dismantled and brought stone by stone to its current resting place on the Hoe.

Now standing at 72 foot high, Smeaton's Tower offers fantastic views of Plymouth Sound and the city from its lantern room which, along with the rest of the building, has been painstakingly restored to its original glory.

Sir Francis Drake is still keeping watch from Plymouth Hoe.

Francis Drake, was born around 1540 in Tavistock, about 15 miles from this statue.
 

He is considered a hero in England, but he is remembered as a pirate in Spain. He famously plundered Spanish ships that were sailing back from their colonies in South America. If the attacks were successful, Drake took the treasure for himself and for his queen. He also raided Spanish and Portuguese ports in the ‘New World’ and the Atlantic.

In 1577 as the leader of an expedition intended to pass around South America, through the Strait of Magellan, and explore the coast that lay beyond.

By Continentalis - This file was derived from  World Topography.jpg:, CC BY-SA 3.0,

Drake successfully completed the journey and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth upon his triumphant return.










He joined the ranks of National Hero in 1588 when he saw action in the defeat of the Spanish Armada, most notably when he captured the Spanish Flagship Rosario.

 He died in 1596 from dysentery off Panama,  after undertaking an unsuccessful raiding mission.

"What did you do at school today?"

"We did measuring, and then we ......"

Fifty shades of grey.

A blustery day on the Promenade of Plymouth Hoe.

Rain is about to stop play at any moment.

The Poppies Wave by night.

I featured the Poppies Wave installation at the Naval War memorial on Plymouth Hoe,

in bright summer sunlight on my post of 26th August.

Here they are on a crisp autumn night.

Operating on a long leash.