A Son of the Rock

The day I photographed the heron in Edinburgh the good lady and I also passed St Bernard’s Well.

This is the well that the former Scottish football team, St Bernards, was named after. (See my first post on eccentric names of Scottish football teams.)

It’s a pity the baby buggy is in the picture’s foreground but I could hardly ask its mother to move it.

The well is beside the Water of Leith in Edinburgh, near Stockbridge.

This is the door. You can just make out the writing “St Bernard’s Mineral Well” on the lintel.

This statue of a classically dressed female is in the centre of the eight pillars which hold up the superstructure.

Here she is in close-up. No doubt the snake is an allusion or allegory of some sort but my knowledge of such things is not extensive.