Sally Mair - Loving life

By Sallymair

Looking up again

Back up town today and passing Ramsay Garden when I happened to look up. I noticed a sculpture of a cat on one of the roof ridges looking out over Princes Street. I'd never noticed it before.
I checked it out on google and apparently it started out as a winged devil with a forked tail. It was one of three statues on the ridges the other two being an angel and a sphinx.
I couldn't get a great zoom shot as I only had my phone camera but hopefully you'll be able to zoom for yourself if you want to.
The statues were commissioned by Patrick Geddes when the buildings were new in the 1890s.

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