pictures & comments -

of course we know I'm knitting -- hence, one improvised winder

and the building next door - all ready for something - the scaffold builders thought painting -- one month to do the scaffolding - "stick built" on the site -- ??how would/how do we do this in the US??

also next door to the museum of Natural History - it LOOKS like a museum - outside

and inside - with halls and walls of proper displays -- bah humbug on computer integrative interactive nonesense - give me a wall plastered fossil any day !

and the main hall is totally grand -

looking back at the entrance -- and do you know, they have a slice of a california sequoia that was felled in 1892 for exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair!  wonder if Chg still has a slice?

yesterday was Portsmouth - my last train ticket day - and go minus 2 on this most incredible of all walk-abouts

we were in portsmouth oh-- 15 years ago? and since that time ONE thing is a great new development - shopping, bowling, movies, restaurants - all right on the seafront right next to the train terminal.  As big as the outlet malls, but mainline stores - sort of Schaumberg on the seashore (also do have some good outlet shops - M&S, etc.)

and includes this attraction - 3 viewing decks (one includes a cafe - w/ tables & chairs - (GRIN)

and the lowest w/ a glass floor - so one can "walk on air" - a bit disconcerting at first, it becomes a lovely sensation - and now I'm ready for a walk on the grand canyon horseshoe... 

 of course you can see forever...

and the top is guarded by the resident plastic owl.

lovely piece of work -

had lunch at "Giraffe" - and the neighboring table let me photograph the herds they had collected from kindly bartenders!

a Milennium walk connected this new development with the established seaside play area - the beach is all stone..

and the requisite church ruin

this is the railing - walk has been finished only since 2005 (didn't quite make the milennium)

they have a pier, but it's along the coast rather than built out into it - last trip Carlyn and I did a LONG and almost green tilt-a-whirl.  It's still there...

It was a lovely day out --