Comments | anteros_lmc: Ships and Snow

anteros_lmc

Ships and Snow

Nov 28, 2010 19:38

We have snow. Lots of it! So earlier today I took a walk down to the tall ship Glenlee which was supposed to be open to the public for the first time since refurbishment earlier this summer. I thought she would look pretty in the snow :)

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eglantine_br November 28 2010, 22:45:45 UTC

Gorgeous, and serene. I do love new snow. No snow here yet. Next few weeks, would be usual.

anteros_lmc November 29 2010, 10:05:46 UTC

It was very serene. It was so quiet and still down by the river there in the snow. Beautiful :)

sarlania November 28 2010, 23:47:23 UTC

Pretty ships!!!!!!!! :D :D I do love ships+snow. Makes for such a gorgeous combination!

anteros_lmc November 29 2010, 10:16:41 UTC

She's a very pretty ship! The "gun ports" are just painted on btw. Glenlee was built as a "Cape Horner" in 1896 and never carried guns to my knowledge. However it's my understanding that the "gun ports" are an original feature designed to give the impression the ship was armed.

vespican November 29 2010, 23:08:19 UTC

As I understand it, painted gun ports were quite common on merchantmen through much of the AOS. Earlier on, in Hornblower's time, commercial vessels were likely to be armed.
Dave
PS Our snow is still here and more expected overnight.

anteros_lmc November 29 2010, 23:45:27 UTC

Yes, I think you're right and I have to say the painted ports do look very effective!

We have had no more snow since Sunday but we got enough over the weekend to have great fun sledging and building snowmen!

_likimeya November 29 2010, 07:29:06 UTC

Lovely!! We've had snow too, but not enough to cover all the miserable grey… :/ We may get more today.
*makes us some hot punch*
Let's hope we get a white christmas!

anteros_lmc November 29 2010, 10:08:24 UTC

It's very, very unusual for us to have snow in November. In fact we don't get much snow on the West Coast of Scotland at all. Rain and howling gales are more normal for us! We made the most of it by building a huge snowman in the garden and going sledging in the park :)

weeboopiper November 29 2010, 08:37:10 UTC

Very pretty.

anteros_lmc November 29 2010, 10:18:03 UTC

She is :)

nodbear November 29 2010, 10:56:23 UTC

Ships and snow - absolutely great combination
ships, snow and snowed on personnel - even better
*thinks thinky thoughts about seasonal fic and the like*

thank you for these !

anteros_lmc November 29 2010, 22:05:53 UTC

ships, snow and snowed on personnel - even better
Yes indeed! Cold middies with cold noses and freezing fingers. Need to warm them up somewhere! ;P