A Lovely View

[horseshoes]

..... from Anglesey across the Menai Straits looking over my home town towards the mountains.

http://i59.tinypic.com/15mzcll.jpg

[Psybbo]

What a spectacular view, are you safe from flooding?

[tonyav]

Great view with the snow on the hills, horseshoes, when did you take the photo ?.

[horseshoes]

No flooding. I live on VERY high ground. Lots of trees down and a fair bit of snow last Tuesday. The photo was taken either last Sunday or Monday (whenever we had a short burst of sunshine), but to be honest, could have been taken last week, last year, year before, a decade ago..... it's taken from a large pull in which ALWAYS has a fantastic view. Lots of bride and groom photos taken there, including my son and daughter in law. My old Grammar School had all the classrooms on one side so that was the view we all had during lessons!

[tonyav]

Lucky you having that view from your classrooms, horseshoes, the view from most of our classrooms where of the sports field.

[DaisyNonna]

Has it been built on yet Tony?

[tonyav]

Has it happens no it hasn't yet, Daisy. Unusual these days.

[pixie373]

Wow. Great photo, horseshoes

[horseshoes]

Yes indeed, very lucky. Our school psalm was I Will Lift Mine Eyes Unto the Hills, for obvious reasons! If you could scan to the right a bit on the photo, you'd be able to see a mountain called Tryfan. That was DIRECTLY opposite the school and I was in the house called Tryfan too!

[DaisyNonna]

We had fantastic grounds and sports fields. Been unable to find out what happened when the school closed.

[tonyav]

Is Tryfan the highest of those mountains in the photo, horseshoes ?.

Do you mean Frank F, Daisy ?.

[DaisyNonna]

No, Erdington Grammar, Kingsbury Road.

[tonyav]

Ah right, Daisy, have you tried Googleing your old school, Daisy ?.

[jeffa]

Is that from LLwynonn Lodge?

[horseshoes]

Jeffa, it's taken from the very large layby on the road to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogeranchwyndrobwyllllandisiliogogogoch.

[jeffa]

That's easy for you to say!

[gness]

Horseshoes.....that's a beautiful view. I have a fairly nice view from the back of my house but nothing like that. I miss my Irish views.

From my classroom I could see the convent on one side and the parochial house on the other...grim....♥

[DTCwordfan]

It's a beautiful view, horseshoes - shame that the bridge is going to be blown away tonight!

Take care if it's windy with you - it's still at 60-70 here. No 'damage' yet.....just one 2 minuted blip on the power line this afternoon.

[horseshoes]

Tony, it's difficult for me to say which one is Tryfan. If I was in Bangor I could pinpoint it exactly. It's very possibly the one next to the one showing grey. It's a VERY rugged mountain; we used to say it looks like Queen Victoria. Lots of photos of it if you have a google.
http://i58.tinypic.com/r8gqzc.jpg

[Prudie]

That's lovely horseshoes. If you remember way back I told you my grandparents lived up the top of Siliwen Road, fabulous view across the straits from their house. For several years running my boyfriend ad I used to camp at the farm at the foot of Tryfan. I have some great (and wet and cold) memories of camping there.

[horseshoes]

Pfff DTC only 60-70mph!! We had over 100 mph on Wednesday night and 109 down on the Lleyn. It's funny, if you are on the suspension bridge in the wind, I can actually feel it move quite a lot. My Mum and Dad used to live right near the Bangor end, so we walked over it a lot. Quite scary when you first do it?