Happy Easter to all my blog followers

More Tobago to fend off the winter cold.

This is a large painting of boats at Pigeon Point in Tobago.
A wee bit of colour on a winters day.

Wee watercolour sketch in the Algarve

Another from the French sketchbook.

Moiré in Beaujolais...sketchbook page.

Part of a parking bay. These days in Scotland it can also
be a political statement.

Mist shrouds Dunure castle. Elsewhere it was a beautiful sunny
blue sky day.

Reflection

There's something unendingly attractive about the colours,
shapes and textures of fishing gear from boats.

Photographer Ken Mellin is exhibiting photos of the Paris
Underground in SWG3, 100 Eastvale Place, Glasgow G3.
16th-23rd March.
Each image is for sale in a limited edition of 10. Great
prices. Great images.

This another drawing from about ten years ago. This one gave
birth to a series of paintings which is still ongoing.

Found an old slide of a drawing I did years ago. Little church
near Spean Bridge. It's not a very good scan of the slide but then
I don't have a very good scanner. Time to invest I think.

When I was a kid living on a spur of Glebe Road in Beith we
listened in wonder to the story of the train that failed to stop
in the station (which was below us) and went right across
Glebe Road.
Someone in Beith found this newspaper cutting and this is
the first time I've seen a photo of the event. It was in 1950.
Wonder how they moved it.

Beith Town House

This is Beith Town House. Part of the building is now a museum
run by volunteers. There are only two small rooms but they put on
exhibitions. The one that has just finished was an exhibition of
photographs of transport in the town. Part of the permanent collection
is the flag above. This is an old wood block print flag. There was, for
many years, a wood block print flag making business in Lochwinnoch.
In all probability it was made there. As for the age of the flag...I don't
know but it has to be a couple of hundred years old.
The Town House museum  is open on Tuesdays and Saturday mornings.

This is the 'Auld Kirk' in Beith in Ayrshire. Dating from the
mid eighteenth century the Kirk was more extensive than it is
now. The most celebrated of its ministers was one John
Witherspoon who was in Beith from 1745-1758. In 1768
Witherspoon moved with his family to Princeton where he
became President of the Presbyterian College of New Jersey.
In 1776 he was one of those who signed the American
Declaration of Independence. The only minister to do so.

From the hills above the Clyde

Portencross