Bell tower

We walked down from halfway up the hill, where the bus dropped us off, to the beach.  This is Positano's bell tower, with the beach right behind me. 

Beachfront property

 

December 2011.  View off a cliff in Positano, Italy.  Weird perspective, but I like it.

Positano, Italy

 

Aaand to take a break from all the snowy pictures of Scotland, have a sunny picture of Positano, Italy, on the Amalfi coast.

Sunshine!  Beach!  Ocean!  I flailed with excitement and ended up buying some local art by a chatty old native whose daughters all lived in Rome, but he preferred Positano and Sorrento.

Stirling, again.

Another view of Stirling from last December, again facing away from the castle.  The temperature had begun to rapidly drop not too long before this. 

Stirling

Stirling, Scotland, in the midst of a cold December day, 2010.  Behind me is Stirling's castle, and off in the distance on the tree-covered hill you can just barely make out the Wallace monument. 

View of Loch Lomond from December 2010

Very, very chilly out there.  I had fingerless gloves on at the time.  Did my hands leave my coat pockets?  No, they did not.