Another bridge

Further down the river from yesterday’s bridge is its more famous and bigger neighbour the Squinty Bridge (it’s called the Clyde Arc really but nobody calls it that). This picture was taken last autumn, I think they’d only just started building yesterday’s bridge (which I still don’t know what it’s called!) then. The crane is the Finnieston Crane which has also featured here several times already.

Bridge

This is another view of the new footbridge over the Clyde I showed last week.

Going Underground – Kelvinbridge

This is the escalator from the Great Western Road to Kelvinbridge subway (underground train) station. You can hopefully see the tower of Glasgow University in the distance.

July 2009 Theme Day – “Empty”

Today is the first of the month, so that’s another theme day for the City Daily Photo Blogs. This month the theme is “Empty”, and so I am presenting a view from the university where I work – the undergraduate students have been gone a couple of weeks, apart from the finalists who are attending their graduation ceremonies, and the campus is lovely and empty, I always really like it this time of year. This place is the food hall of “The Hub”, the relatively newly-built building on campus (it opened in January I think). During term time, especially lunchtimes, it is absolutely heaving, but now as you can see it lies largely empty.

[Maybe that's why the food and drink there is so expensive, to make up for the fact that for several months there's hardly anyone here to buy it. But that's a whinge for another day, I expect ]

For interpretations of the “Empty” theme from around the world, click here to view thumbnails for all participants.

Statues

One of the suggestions for the July theme day was “statues”. As it turns out, that wasn’t chosen as the theme in the end (tune in tomorrow to find out what was!), but before the decision was made I took this picture just in case, and I liked it so thought I would use it anyway. This is in George Square, looking up at Sir Walter Scott on his column and, er, I can’t remember who the other guy is! Will check that out next time I’m passing!

Glasgow glass

These are a few of the 13 pictures of famous Glasgow glass features currently adorning the outside of Lansdowne Parish Church on Great Western Road.

Where is our blogger?

Please read this post in place of a photo today.

The photo I was going to publish today (and did briefly, until I became aware of this campaign) will be shown later in the week. For today, and the days ahead, this is more important.

Tropicana

This is also taken from the Kibble Palace. I love that whatever the weather (or probably more accurate for here, Weather-with-a-capital-W), even in Glasgow there is a touch of the tropical.

Dome

Katya is currently showing photos from the Botanic Gardens in Buffalo, and a lot of her glasshouse ones are reminding me of Glasgow’s Botanics. So here’s a picture from the Kibble Palace glasshouse to accompany the photos from the other side of the Pond.

Bendy

This is a close-up from the new footbridge, showing the curves that really aren’t that noticeable when you look at it head-on.