Tales of Home [7]

Then again, what is the real crime, the swimming or the state of the harbour water?

I wouldn't say it's that gross. Like most things I think the state of the harbor water has probably improved over the last decade. The Hudson used to be a dead zone, then people had enough of it and cleaned it up.

There's still a major sewage leakage problem in the harbor. You can smell it just by walking by sometimes (especially around Pier Six).

There are clean-up efforts as well though, so you're probably right that it's better than it was.

It must have smelled clean at the time, or they wouldn't go in.  It looked cleaner than how I remember it from over a decade before. Hopefully the sewage outflow was small at the time!

For the last few nights we've had the most beautiful full moons So bright they look like a cars headlights on full beam, my mobile does not do it justice sadly.









Yesterday the temperature rose to " hot as fooking Hell" !! Not one cloud in the sky to hide under, talk about fried to a crisp clocked in at 31C !!, Thank gawd today is cooler or this would have been my ghost posting this.

It was cooler until the cloud disappeared. This train home is like an oven!

{{{Miserable cold and wet one day, boiling hot the next, result= storms! Sadly the good one broke overnight and I was passed out by then as I was working at 6.

Took this picture first though of the storm clouds gathering-



Though I wasn't concious to take any of the storm someone else I know did, these are all looking out over the Holy Loch, I grew up around there and have many fond memories of sitting with my older brother watching storms over the loch and hills just like this, you get quite a show and the hills and the water make the thunder echo on and carry the sound back and forth really loudly.}}







{{This one was taken by someone else, in town from their window looking across the Clyde towards Gourock}}

Oooooo, love the pics Petty ! Doesnt a storm get yer juices going makes you feel alive for the time its crashing & then, afterwards, I find it easy to sleep & totally conk out

It's been so hot down here the last couple of days I'd almost welcome a severe thunder storm

Your down here in the South like me Malick, It has been a Devils Cauldron lately. A storm would be nice

That feeling when you've not been home for so long that you start looking up pictures of it on google.

Awww...

We're still enjoying Umag, Croatia. Got a few days of bad weather coming, but when rest of Europe was under a cloud, here it was blissfully sunny. So we came earlier and we're staying longer than planned.

Ringo

Glad your vacation has been going well, Amarië!

this is where i work

the one above i didn't take, but i took this one, around midnight after my shift, about to take the cable down

Lucky you

Wait, what work do you do? I'd wash dishes for a view like that.

Id shovel shit for a view like that !

wait..so basically you work in Asgard?

Very cool.

Juneau, Alaska had a cable car like that leaving from the downtown area and going up the nearby mountain. Although its "downtown" is pretty tiny.

Eldorion wrote:Very cool.

Juneau, Alaska had a cable car like that leaving from the downtown area and going up the nearby mountain. Although its "downtown" is pretty tiny.

Huh, just googled it...Alaska is apparently approximately 7 times the size entire of the entire UK and has less than 800,000 people living there, no winder Sarah Palin was so crazy...

It's a neat place. Utterly gorgeous in terms of nature. Would love to go back and see more than just the Panhandle some day.

I make waffles and serve muffins, coffee and beer and icecream and wine for that view.

I also do dishes