#Bird bell fish tree movie#

The glass at the Burrell collection is so nice and displayed quite well. Which has stone bits built within the museum. The last stop of the trip was the Burrell collection. I like the pointed lights in the east window and the dark columns. The cathedral is very small, in comparison to York Minster but very nice. Also the healing saint in Harry Potter, just as a side note. Then in to Glasgow’s Cathedral, which is dedicated to St. These were my favourite, the fake Hiberno style cross and the sad virgin with industrial soot embedded withing the folds of her dress. The necropolis was really interesting, there were lots of fun things to see and it was a lovely morning walk (although I should not have worn flannel flats). The next morning was spent in the necropolis and the cathedral. You can barely spy Elizabeth in this photo through the glass of white, she was not keen on photos. I will be posting about wallpaper again in the near-ish future. Its old.ħ, had excellent wallpaper and decor. The Kelvingrove Museum.Ĭool Tower thing…I have no idea what it is or why its there. UoG does have wonderful views of the city, and that building is where we were headed next. The University of Glasgow has an adorable campus, not really old though.Īlbeit, it does make a sterling effort to be old. We then walked about town for a bit, seeing the west end of the city. The water has fruit and the wall had an acrylic cast moose head, I quite liked this place.

#Bird bell fish tree movie#

We went to the Hillhead Book Club, a converted movie theatre that now serves a wonderful Eggs Florentine, that paired excellently with Buck’s Fizz (aka mimosa). As the main purpose of this trip was fun and relaxation we started it off with a wonderful brunch. I had an excellent little break with my friend Elizabeth who is living in Glasgow for the summer. While the bird receives nectar or fruit (in the form of berries) from the tree it visits, the tree benefits by having another organism carry out the process of pollination or seed dispersal. It is by no means done, but it is a whole and complete thing: which is something.Īnyway, Glasgow was wonderful. Native birds interacting with the flora in our ecosystems have a mutualistic relationship that is, they both benefit from the relationship. But on the upside, I do have a complete draft of my thesis. This whole matter just illustrates once again how squishy and difficult prepositions can be in English-or in any language, for that matter.So it has now been over two weeks since I went to Glasgow, but I’ve had such a busy week upon my return that I have absolutely neglected to update. And had he used in in this case the focus would have been widened to emphasize the tree, not the bird-hardly appropriate to the song of a little bird. We're given a close-up of the bird, and the economy of words necessary to lyricize a simple song forces Gilbert to pare down the verbiage, so the ideas are telescoped: 'On a branch of a tree' simply wouldn't scan. Gilbert is offering a little sketch of a bird singing, and to do so it must sit on a branch. This is a legitimate usage, one that would seem to contradict my statement about the in usage. This is from The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan, from the song 'Tit-Willow': Now, just to confound everyone (and reveal the nuance), consider another reference. There it is quite obvious we are close enough to actually see the bird in the tree. Note, however, that it is entirely proper to say that a bird lights on (or upon) a branch. Even on a leafless dead or dormant tree, though, we still refer to birds in the trees. They are in among the branches, in among the foliage. Unless the foliage is sparse, you probably can't even see the birds, though birdsong may announce their presence. Now, the leaves are probably the origin of the use of the preposition in with respect to trees: the birds are in among the leaves.

No place, there, for fallen trees these are youthful, upright and leaf-covered. The poet is concerned here to draw a contrast between old and young, and the birds (in the fragment I boldfaced) are on the youth side of that equation. The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,įish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long

In one another's arms, birds in the trees, Nevertheless, there are nuances to everything. I wrote the above eight years ago, and still stand by what I say. Sitting 'in' a tree means sitting in among the branches, most likely at least partly hidden from view. If you were to say two people were 'sitting on a tree' in this case, it would imply that the tree was on the ground-i.e., that it had fallen or been cut down.