I like the stripey reflection of trees on the far bank.

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This public artwork is the central feature of a small park between CBC (with the red windows) and the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (behind the camera). As seen reflected in The Ritz-Carlton hotel, the CN Tower is just beyond the Convention Centre.

The tapering form (approx. 3×4×2.5 m), contrasting with the surrounding rectilinear skyscrapers, is more stepped close-up, as its stripey contours are constructed of numerous horizontal layers of water-cut aluminium.


[Image reached no. 450 in Flickr Explore on 18/04/24! Thank you!]

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Seen from halfway up Deepdale (below Letterhaw Crag?), the background is rather dominated by Hart Crag and the cloud factory of Link Cove.
Hart Crag's 822 m summit is on the left, hidden by, yes, cloud; the peak in the sunbeam is The Step, above Erne Nest Crag. Link Hause extends rightwards from there, to Fairfield (873 m). That's in cloud too, but Cofa Pike is to the right.

Hartsop above How forms the left of the main valley, with St Sunday Crag to the right of this view.

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Thought to be about 14 year old at the time of the photo, Doorkins, street cat turned cathedral supervisor, first wandered into Southwark Cathedral in 2009, since when she ignored the Queen, inspired a children's book and a stone corbel, and upstaged numerous guests – even the baby Jesus by sleeping in the nativity crib.

As excellent a building as Southwark Cathedral is, I suspect she was the main reason for repeat visits by otherwise non-churchgoers. We certainly made a point of visiting her each time we were in London, until her retirement from the cathedral to a verger's house in late 2019 and death the following year.

She wasn't the most sociable old lady, preferring to snooze under a radiator or in her choir stall (inexplicably labelled as the Archdeacon of Wandsworth's – plainly an error). Despite her dainty chin and kinked whisker, there was always a certain glint in her eye when accidentally disturbed. I wouldn't cross her, and didn't impose on her for these photos.

A new and much friendlier cathedral cat, Hodge, was introduced later in 2020. Though he's very welcome, I still miss the grand old lady, and was pleasantly surprised to discover this 2018 photo I hadn't previously published.

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Directly behind this tree on Ulgill Rigg, Little Ulgill Beck falls ~100 m vertically (in a cascade, not single drop) over Black Force to join Carlingill Beck, visible at the lower right. The steep slope on the right, facing the waterfall, is the Screes of Black Force.

It's difficult for a photo to demonstrate the scale of the slopes lining the upper end of Carlin Gill (and most other Howgill valleys), but those trees beside the beck are indeed fully tree-sized – they're not huge, but they're not bushes!

Behind, two tributaries join the main beck: Small Gill and Heskaw Gill. The haziness behind the tree indicates that they were being fed by new rain at the time of the photo – which was heading my way....
The left ridge continues as Back Balk to Gallows Hill overlooking Fairmile Road (a single track Roman road) and the Lune Gorge. Beyond is Greyrigg Pike, 4 km away in the Lake District National Park, and more rain largely obscuring Borrowdale.

Beyond the Screes of Black Force, the slope on the right rises to Uldale Head, forming the northern side of Carlin Gill. Blease Fell is at the end, 2½ km away.

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