| Looking over fields to Red Wharf Bay (east side of the island). (1st 4 pictures.) |
You see the ingredients that speak to Wilbur: Hills going right down to the water. |
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Below: The beach at Red Wharf Bay. (Also the destination of my bikeriding adventure.)
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| Same place, grayer day |
gray day in Beaumaris |
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| Bangor pier (sheep in foreground) |
Caernarfon pier (the doc) |
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below: house overlooking Camaes Bay (north coast) |
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| Camaes Bay |
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below: inlet behind town of Camaes Bay (running into the bay) |
boats tied up in the inlet--low tide, on their single keels |
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| Below: You'll see this house again close up, under "architecture." The first weekend, we stopped by the roadside to admire the treescape. The next week, we find out that Marilyn Vihman of York University (formerly Stanford, Bangor and several places in between) was staying with a friend--in this house. We got this strange feeling as she was giving us the directions for how to find it, so we could all go to lunch together. |
Tree overlooking Bangor pier |
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South stack (on the Northeast corner, near Holyhead). |
Penmon Lighthouse and Puffin Island (southeast corner) |
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Below: Menai Strait (from the mainland) on trip home one evening. |
Menai Strait looking back to mainland, West of Bangor. |
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Carmen Silva-Corvalan of USC is here, too, staying in a town called Llanfairfechan. That's her house on left. Note the sheep. For all our talk of sheep, and many hours on the bus, counting sheep, watching lambs grow from frisky to stolid, we have very few pictures of them. |
Carmen and I walked up the hills from her house, toward "Garreg Fawr" (Big Rock, I think). If you look back, this is what you see. (This is not as high as she and I went. It's actually from the spot we're looking at her house from. in previous picture.) |
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| Below: A walk to Aber Falls, starting at the bridge over the brook. |
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| Below: The picket fence is notable for being made out of slate. |
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Below: From the dining room on a slightly sunnier day. You still can barely see the higher mountains. They had snow on them when we arrived.
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below: In eastern Wales, fields of rape seed |
overlooking church in Montgomery, with rainbow |
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Carmen on Llanddwyn Island at Newborough Beach (5/2) |
windswept dune grasses and ancient (volcanic) rocks |
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Llanddwyn lighthouse (Snowdonia in background) |
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| Wilbur went back another day to get a more panoramic view. When asked his favorite landscape, Newborough Beach. |
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| Heading home, leaving at sunset (the Great Orme of Llandudno on the horizon) |
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On to more pictures (our house)
back to Wales homepage.
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