St Andrew’s Day 2023

This is an embroidery hanging in the Central Library celebrating the work of the Landscape Gardener, Norah Geddes. She was the daughter of Sir Patrick Geddes who initiated the West Port Garden in 1909 as a space for the nearby children living in the slum conditions of the Old Town in which to experience space and nature.

Patrick Geddes was a man of diverse talents but is well known as a biologist and town planner. 
The West Port garden is laid out on a steeply rising slope from the Grassmarket up to the Art College. I have blipped it in the past as I perambulated round the environs and it looks a little haven of greenness in the midst of the very narrow, busy  street that is West Port.

I am not frequenting the library to keep warm although that is indeed a bonus but to borrow another book by Ruth Ware  whose easy writing  is appealing to me as light relief after the marathon read of Lessons by Iain McEwan. 

Although it has been a sunny day in Edinburgh I have noticed cars and lorries arriving in the city with thick snow on their roofs. Somewhere nearby is getting the white stuff.