Arthur’s Seat in the Spring
Out of Edinburgh’s many attractions, I thought that my brother would enjoy a walk in Holyrood Park the most. The weather predictions have not been cooperating with this idea, but the forecasts have been wrong every day for the last week. It’s almost as if the local meteorologists have given up, and decided that if they predict rain for the whole day, every day, that they have a fifty percent chance of being right at any given time.
The problem is, that means that we think it will rain all day, and then wind up with long periods of beautiful weather. Fed up with it, we decided that today was going to have beautiful weather no matter what was predicted and went up Arthur’s Seat in the park. We were drizzled on for about five minutes on the way down, but it only made the grass greener.
Now, without further ado, I can post a picture of my Yeti brother at the summit. He’s standing on top of the plaque that most people use as an anchor.
Here is a shot from the west side of Arthur’s Seat of Edinburgh. The green swath in the center of the shot are The Meadows. The towers to the right of the Meadows sit around George Square, the main campus of the University.
This is a shot of the path that winds up the west face of Arthur’s Seat. There are other paths, but this one consists of a granite staircase that goes almost all the way to the top.
And here is a shot of that green grass I wrote about.
- Don
