Photos from a winter wander through Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow.
I was due to meet friends for lunch in Glasgow and woke up to a bright, sunny day, albeit one with a fair dusting of snow outside. I decided to take advantage of the fine conditions and got an earlier bus into town than the one I would usually get. Another bus got me out to Kelvingrove Park and then I made my meandering way east from behind the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum back towards the city centre.
One of the advantages of a winter walk is that there are no leaf-filled branches to block the views behind and I made the most of it today. It was also an advantage, in terms of the underfoot conditions, that the covering of snow that I had at home was nowhere to be seen in the city centre of Glasgow.
One of the most striking features of Kelvingrove Park is the Stewart Memorial Fountain (below). Erected to celebrate the completion of the major public works to pipe fresh water from Loch Katrine in the Trossachs to Glasgow in the 1850’s, the fountain is named after Robert Stewart, The Lord Provost of Glasgow at the time.
All-in-all, it was an excellent way to spend my morning, made only slightly better by the knowledge that there was a pub lunch in the city centre at the end of it. A bowl of hot soup followed by steak pie and chips – just what one needs on a cold winter day. Don’t let that sun and these blue skies fool you, it was chilly out there!
The China Penguin 