Stairs

Often I'm surprised to see the images I download from my camera at the end of a day which consists mostly of things other than taking photographs. This evening it disgorged:

(a) a grey and black pigeon, dead, up against one of the rails opposite platform 11 in Waverley station. (The train was half an hour late, so I had to amuse myself.)

(b) the stairs up to the castle keep in Newcastle which I walked past on my way to the office in bright sunlight. Years ago, you might have glimpsed meancoast peeking over the battlements with a party of students....

(c) a blurry distant shot of a large-ish bird that was one of four stoatin' about on some waste ground in Gateshead (just so's I could zoom in on him - definitely a thrush, rather than a fieldfare).

(d) a night shot of Waverley steps which are the quickest route up onto Princes St out of the station in Edinburgh, with people hurrying up them in a horrible sort of sleet storm. They're famed for being the windiest place in Edinburgh. OK Scobes, that's apart from our place a few hours after the artichoke soup. ;-)
I took the snap because I'd just seen a poster in the station saying that from Feb 10th the Steps are going to be closed for a year, for some sort of cosmetic re-modelling. (The train back was only 20 minutes late - progress of a sort.)

It was hard to believe that (d) was taken on the same day as (b). They were taken in different countries, come to think of it.