The Giant Red Heart in Kirkcaldy Scotland

Hello Hello Happy Valentine's Day ❤️💝💙🖤

I had to post this post today for reasons which I am sure are abundantly clear already!

This was from the afternoon of Saturday 27th January. I dropped off Mrs T at her crochet class at the War Memorial and had my camera so decided to go exploring.

Wrap up warm and let's go!

Well this is where we start today, on the esplanade in Kirkcaldy in Scotland. We are overlooking the Firth of Forth.

The ships are on their way back from Grangemouth.

Grangemouth is the huge refinery and petrochem plant along the coast.

Although I heard it is closing in a couple of years or maybe next year.

We are walking along the esplanade towards Dysart.

That outcrop is a seawall for the harbour behind it.

Back to our view on the left, and esplanade runs parallel to the road, that is the leisure centre you see.

That place is Pommy's a quite fantastic buffet restaurant.

We often get a delivery from them.

Are you out in a restaurant tonight? We stopped doing that years ago, and either do it the weekend before or after Valentine's Day.

So see you on Friday guys!

I do like them, as they know us and give uspreferential treatment haha.

Away in the distance, courtesy of my zoom...

Is a big red heart.

I had not seen it yet and was determined to capture what I had read about!

Rough weather means so much is washed up ashore.
This was high tide so it was all up on the rocks.

Having lived on the coast most of my life I am fascinated with fishing boats and their nets as you can see there.

The big boat house I call it, says it is R SALE, I am presuming it means FOR SALE!

Our viewbehind, I had walked all along that!

There she is!

Look I captured a couple of Silver Bloggers in the heart!

I had read about it and it was installed close to September 14th last year.

September 14th is always a special day as it was my parents anniversary.

Being winter the sun was going down and I was busy snapping away!

Dog wif hat eat your heart out!

Car in heart!

The road up the hill!

So I showed the pictures to Mrs T when we got home, thinking she would like them.

She asks what the little metal plaque says!

No idea says I!

The origin of the heart.

Excerpt from article in The Courier newspaper

The sculpture was commissioned by Fife Council with the aim of installing something that would put a smile on people’s faces and attract visitors to the area.

Rory Thomas, who created the sculpture, told The Courier: “We wanted to build something that would give people a positive feeling in the town.
“The heart symbolises the love that we all have.

“The heart will also encourage people to take selfies which will give people an emotional connection to the place.

“Additionally, the aim was to give the promenade an identifiable feature that people would recognise.”

Rory and his son Kyran are behind metalwork business Iron Design by Rory, which has been based in Leslie for the last 40 years.

The big gives you some idea of size.

I was watching this guy and had crossed the road other wise I would have asked if he wanted me to take his pic with his love!

He moved back to capture the perfect shot!

I think the makers would be please it is being used with their intentions!

Oh heck I need to skedaddle and not be late to meet Mrs T!

This post is for my Valentine's day walk post of 2024 for #wednesdaywalk which was started by the wonderful Hive account@tattoodjay.

Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your day!