First look at downtown Nashville

It was a long day coming over. Up early to book in at Manchester airport. Customs and security at Dulles, Washington a nightmare, then finding wet snow in Nashville !
My accomodation however is brilliant, thanks to my hosts and Airbnb.
Wet snow Monday night an almost Scottish dreich day today.
I eventually got down in the rain to Nashville's Broadway. The live music coming from almost every doorway soon had me a little choked however. It's been a long time coming. Here's a few pictures.
(wi-fi isn't very good, so posts will be few)

A resting blogger.........or maybe not.

I'm heading west later today. I'm hoping to keep a live blog on the go, but just in case I'm unable, I'll be back posting in December.

Happy blogging to my fellow bloggers, and to my fellow Ramblers, have an enjoyable Christmas party.

Cheerio the noo. 

First snow over Newton Stewart November 2013

Tuesday the 19th of November

A call of nature had me up at 4 am and as I looked out the window I could see it was snowing.

Back to bed till 8 am, then up to take a few early pictures.

The moon was still quite high in the sky.

It was worth a couple of zoom ins

The roads were quite slippy.

Since there was hardly a cloud in the sky, and the forecast for Wednesday was a wet one, I decided today I should go out and take a few more pictures. Just a pair of trainers on, I'm not planning on walking far.

A few things to snap in Doonhill woods

Over and above Douglas Ewart High School, I can see over to Larg and Lamachan hills. Looks to be quite a bit of snow up there !

Over towards the golf course there's Craignelder and Cairnsmore

Between them is Curleywee, Millfore and Drigmorn

It's a really bright morning so my camera is kept busy.

Bottom left above looked a good candidate for a macro, next picture.

I think it came out well.

The steeple of the Newton Stewart Museum

Creebridge and the weir

It's a colourful walk along the riverside

What is it with birds and snow ?

I always seem to get more bird pictures after a snow fall.

Machermore Castle across the river.

So I've only got trainers on and if I go up the hill my feet will get wet.

Well, I'm not far from home. This is looking towards Blackcraig.

The view south-east to Creetown

I'm heading up to the mobile mast above Barrhill Farm.

Newton Stewart-Gateway to the Galloway Hills

On a number of my older posts my panoramas have gone due to defunct websites. 

Nowadays I'm uploading them to Dermander

Another view of Curleywee, Millfore and Drigmorn. 

Bottom, right of centre is the Kirroughtree House Hotel

On the descent I'm taking a couple of macro shots

Now, what's this ?

I'm a cheat, I turned them upside down. They are as you can see, drops of water hanging from a gate.

Should this still be flowering in November ?

Barbuchany is below me.

Back down and my feet are frozen and wet. I'm thankful for the hard surface to try and get some feeling back in my feet.

My last picture is the view from the bridge above the Post Office which is where the railway station was.

What a great view returning natives would have had.

I enjoyed my walk today.