January 06, 2003
metal and snow
I have been fascinated by Grangemouth since I first came across it. Living near it you get to see it in many different lights - some of them very spectacular. I particularly like it when there are huge flares and low cloud. The entire landscape flickers with an erie glow. This picture was taken on Saturday morning at its eastern end. The hills on the right are in Fife.
We went to Edinburgh Zoo on Saturday. Zoos are odd kind of places - I love seeing the animals and I appreciate that zoos do a lot of conservation and scientific work of great value but you can't help feeling sad at seeing animals kept away from the wide open spaces they are used to. Edinburgh Zoo has a nice kind of mood to it though and I particularly liked the penguins who seemed quite happy with the freezing temperatures (odd that). You can see underwater in their enclosure and they are so graceful underwater its untrue. Milo thought they where funny too.
Listening to lots of Can at the moment. Can are one of those groups that are highly rated by musicians but no one else seems to have heard of. Composed mainly of students of 50's german classical composers they launched themselves at rock music in a highly original way.