Union Canal

Feb. 1st, 2009 04:46 pm
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I went for a walk along the Union Canal – the second time in a week (and, actually, the second time ever). The first time, I hadn’t taken my camera with me, so when last Wednesday turned out to be a beautiful, cold, sunny winter’s day, I decided to retrace my steps.

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Along much of the canal was a thin crust of ice; in some places – out towards the west - it was much thicker. The towpath was frosty and slippery.

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There was a coxed women’s four practicing on the water, an unlikely ice-breaker: as their oars pushed through the ice on each side, the bow rode over and through the ice ahead. They left a path of broken ice on each side of a channel of clear water created by the body of their boat.

There were few birds on the canal; they had probably flown to the open, flowing stream of the Water of Leith.

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And a ship called Dignity…

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