Thawing at last

About 100 degrees warmer today and everything is showing it.

Dirty snow

The remaining snow is piled up unto big dirty heaps dotted randomly around town.

Stark vs. Subtle

Playing around with composition here; not entirely satisfied with the result. I do like the building though and the way the light is completely different on two sides, despite them being made of the same materials. I still can't believe that so much architectural effort would be spent on a mere car park when all around buildings that come from the architectural school of bland, and are meant for occupation by proper people, are being thrown up willy-nilly.

Even the Gods were not pleased

The students have been revolting again today. There was another march and demonstration outside the town hall. Massive police presence in case they accidentally overthrew the government or something. The police helicopter was out yet again and circled round and round and round. Here the statue of Vulcan atop the town hall brandishes his arrows in the direction of the officers of the law.

Far from home

A grey day and a rushed dinnertime. These bright Spanish flags were fluttering from a stall in the Millennium Gardens and added a splash of colour to the day.

Anticipation

All day today this pile of snow has slid further and further off the roof towards the car parked below. Every time I have looked up I have been expecting to find it has fallen, but up until leaving work this afternoon it was still tenaciously hanging on.

Skeleton

I was walking up the hill, coming back from feeding the ducks and geese in Hillsborough Park, when one of the vast, new retail sheds they are building on Kilner Way suddenly caught the sun like a mirror. It looked like it was chrome-plated against the clear blue sky.

Self Portrait

I was out looking for pictures this afternoon, but the day had mostly turned grey and the snow had turned a miserable grey with it. I got lucky with about 5 minutes of sunlight - unfortunately I wasn't near anything at all at the time, so I photographed my shadow instead.

I saw a mouse!

The sun came out today which was much lovelier for taking pictures in the snow. For once I didn't lack a choice of photos and I've added a selection here.

However, all that was thrown away when I came across this little critter in a snowdrift outside the Information Commons, happily nibbling away on a nacho chip some students had given him. He was quite oblivious to us all - must have been hungry - he completely ignored the humans and let 1/2 dozen of us take his photo.

An icy shroud

Yet more snow overnight, sigh. As a result the soldiers on the city's cenotaph in Barker's Pool were all wearing snowy hats and shawls today. You couldn't even see the poppy wreaths from a couple of weeks ago, it was so deep.

A garage all to myself

We had a little bit of snow overnight which continued into this morning. The Uni was effectively shut and all teaching was canceled. Unfortunately they didn't decide that until an hour after I had got to work. The Terios was the only car in the underground car park when I arrived and the only one when I left several hours later too.