The afternoon sun creating shadows from the winter skeleton trees, their branches bare, some hanging at the top of the picture. The tree-shadow points eastward, across the Meadows where people are playing football. On the left is Quartermile, the new glass-fronted blocks rising above the stone pavilions, former medical wards when it housed the Royal Infirmary, but this time over a decade since it moved to Little France. Parts of Arthurs Seat are just visible through the trees