Tintern Abbey

Tintern Abbey? No, not really. These abbey ruins are at Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland.
I just thought that the ruins were wonderfully evocative and made me think of Wordsworth's poem.

Old Edinburgh

These two photographs illustrate precisely why I love Edinburgh so much. I took these in April of 2006, yet they look like they might have been taken 50 years ago. Everything changes, yet so much stays the same. That kind of history fascinates me, and I can't imagine living with it like so many do. America is so new, and Europe is so old, and other places are even more ancient. It's such a contrast.