The Skyscraper

Close to The Edge of the World (see my blog post 27.9),
a Tower is growing.

It’s rising above my own horizon now; as I feared it would. This photo was taken through my window the other day. If I sit at the kitchen table, it’s out of view and I can pretend it’s not there. But the illusion goes away as soon as I take one or two steps to the right… :)

Luckily, I think they have almost reached the top now. 
For while at least, it will be the highest building in town.

Can’t help it, I’ve come to (jokingly) think of it as the Tower of Babel…

“Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves ” (Genesis 11:4)

     

This is what it’s supposed to look like when it’s finished.
(Obviously not my own photo!)

Linking to Weekend Reflections

I’m afraid I still cannot see or enter any links at either Skywatch Friday or Friday My Town Shoot Out. (It was the same thing last week.) If anyone has a plausible explanation, please share it. (I suspect something to do with Google+. Which I’m not using.)

 

Friday My Town – Get High

… with your camera, as in shoot from above.

 

Next to our railway station, there is a high rock.
So I decided to do a bit of climbing…

… On second thought, better use the stairs and path!
But I did go up there, and here’s what I saw:

Looking west: The railway station – and a bit beyond…

And a rainbow in the clouds (cut and enlarged from the photo above) – I actually didn’t see that until I got the photos up on the computer!

Zooming in the buildings on the other side of the tracks.

 

South: There’s the tornado sculpture from the first photo again. To the right is the “travel centre” for the long distance busses. In the background to the left is a school, and to the right a spectacular triangular office building.

 

East: Towards the town centre. You can see both church spires in this photo.

 

Lots of red roofs…

 

… and other colours, too.

 

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The day after I’d been up to the top of the Rock, I thought of another high place I’d never been to with the digital camera. So off I went… up to the old Water Tower.

Built in 1900 and looking like a little fairy tale castle, surrounded by a little park on the top of a hill.

 

  

I’ve been up to the top of the tower once, but it’s not usually open to the public. So the entrance gate is as high as I got this time.

The view downhill towards the town centre.

 

The other side of the hill.

 

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On my way back downtown, I passed the Gustaf Adolf Church which was built around the same time as the water tower…

I’ve never been up in the tower…

… and I didn’t go that high this time either.

But I did go up on the balcony where the big organ is.

▲ Looking down … and looking up ▼