Cardiff is my home town although we lived apart for more than twenty-five years. But I’m back now, and in my absence it has become a changed place. It is a safe, welcoming, vibrant city to be proud of- and of course it has the finest rugby stadium in the world right in the heart of town. Where else can you fall out of the ground straight into any one of dozens of pubs to celebrate Wales giving England another bashing in the Six Nations?
I confess I still sometimes desert her for a few months, but then absence makes the heart grow fonder. So here are a few of my favourite images, that capture her at her best perhaps- the essence of a town called home.

Two Iconic buildings from the Bay

Reflections from a Silver tower

Window cleaning a big job

The bug eyed crane

Kids and grown-ups

Man peers into world

Senedd debating chamber

Memorial to merchant seamen

HMS Scott and the Stavros Niachos

The winged hotel

Meeting under Pont-Y-Werin bridge

Norwegian Church & Scott Memorial

Magic circles in yellow

The Barrage at Night

Sunset over the Marina

Brains Brewery and a seagull

The Red House pub- RIP

Buff challenges the Bristol Channel

Gareth Edwards, simply the best

Ghostly Statues in the cathedral

Cardiff Castle from Bute Park

Tree carving in Bute Park

Cardiff City Hall

The City Hall Dragon

House on the Green

Victoria Park pool

Hari Krishna

The Jeweller

Sewing Machine shop window

Cow & Snuffers public house- closed now

Magic Roundabout

Police quartet on horseback

Unknown Warrior

Temple of Peace

Rememberance Day

Regimental mascot- Taffy The Goat

Guardsmen resting

Photographer photographed

Womenfolk on the riverbank

Wetlands on the Bay