Jesse@SomeA few photos from our Saturday ride to Hailuoto Island — along the ice road on a gravel bike. A grey day turned into sunshine.
#Oulunsalo
#oulu
#hailuoto
#IceRoad
#gravelbike
#bikepacking
#grayday
GoudomrandA gray but friendly morning
#dailypicture #citypark #pond #gray #grayday #trees #winter #footbridge #pollardwillow #willow
#dailypicture #citypark #pond #gray #grayday #trees #winter #footbridge #pollardwillow #willow
𝔾𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕 𝕘𝕦𝕟
Recycling is a modern concept, but Walcheren has been doing so for a long time. Even war equipment is recycled. And so that supply of old cannons disappeared into the ground along the canal (picture 2) as bollards for passing ships.
#dailypicture #canal #bridge #ships #cannon #recycled #bicyclist #grayday #walcheren
Recycling is a modern concept, but Walcheren has been doing so for a long time. Even war equipment is recycled. And so that supply of old cannons disappeared into the ground along the canal (picture 2) as bollards for passing ships.
#dailypicture #canal #bridge #ships #cannon #recycled #bicyclist #grayday #walcheren
𝕡𝕣𝕖-𝕎𝕎𝟚 𝕣𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕥𝕤 𝕀𝕀𝕀
These rivets are about the same age as my previous pictures, but give a completely different view. They are part of the swing bridge at Souburg, which is well maintained.
#dailypicture #bridge #rivets #red #wetweather #canal #shiny #grayday
These rivets are about the same age as my previous pictures, but give a completely different view. They are part of the swing bridge at Souburg, which is well maintained.
#dailypicture #bridge #rivets #red #wetweather #canal #shiny #grayday
Same canal at the same gray day as yesterdays post. Now with a view of the monumental swing bridge between East and West Souburg. More about this bridge tomorrow.
#dailypicture #canal #grayday #gray #bridge #towpath
#dailypicture #canal #grayday #gray #bridge #towpath
Assoc for Scottish Literature“Novels like LANARK do what all the best art does: awaken your imaginative capacities without swallowing them whole. It does not give you answers, but it does give you the right questions.”
—Stephen Durkan: “LANARK: an escape to reality”
https://stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/lanark-an-escape-to-reality/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #fantasy
“LANARK is a strange, experimental book that immediately thrusts the reader into a weird world with glimmers of familiarity”
—author Rodge Glass & the International Anthony Burgess Foundation discuss Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/ninety-nine-novels-lanark-by-alasdair-gray/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #AnthonyBurgess
Ninety-Nine Novels: Lanark by Alasdair Gray - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess’s list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. […]
“LANARK, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature.”
—Janice Galloway, writing in 2002
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/12/fiction.alasdairgray
Envoi
Prof Alan Riach, University of Glasgow – who appears, briefly & fictionally, in Alasdair Gray’s 2007 novel OLD MEN IN LOVE (although not, I should add, as an old man in love) – discusses LANARK at our 2022 Schools Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OSI&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WaVgzFyI3JdP1V-XAopXEgR
Alasdair Gray’s novel Lanark
“Taken together, the four prints underscore the oft-disputed unity of LANARK, as well as the sheer will of Gray’s effort to portray the individual’s capabilities for art & love against the backdrop of the modern industrialized state”
—David Auerbach on Alasdair Gray’s art
8/8
https://www.waggish.org/2020/alasdair-grays-lanark-the-four-frontispieces/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #visualart #print #printmaking #illustration