Two for the price of one

Two pieces of artwork in this picture.

The Lion of Scotland is by Ronald Rae, and used to be in Holyrood Park, by the Parliament until 2010, when it was considered surplus to requirements by the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body, and made the one mile trip to St Andrew Square for a 2 year sojourn. My maths isn't great but to me it's more than 2 years since 2010! The sculpture is for sale, according to the artist's website, so if you fancy twenty tonnes of Caithness stone wrought in the form of a lion, it's price on application!

The second artwork here has appeared in a number of the blips I'm following already, but all lit up after dusk. I thought I'd blip the less obvious daytime shot of it. Field of Light by Bruce Munro consists of 9,500 glass spheres that are lit as dusk falls. In their unlit state - to me - they look rather like the hyphal branches (aerial fruiting bodies) and mycelium of some giant fungus.

All the work computer systems were goosed today, making for a fruitless and frustrating day at the office. I think someone must have been working on the servers at the weekend and forgotten to wind the clockwork after they left... Still, at least there was cake.

I'm busy now flying through Ian Rankin's The Impossible Dead - really enjoying his Malcolm Fox novels despite my original misgivings. I started this one on Saturday afternoon and may well finish it this evening as there's nothing worth watching on TV...