Picture: Llandudno bay and the curve of the promenade, looking down from the Great Orme.
Great Orme cars and the marine drive fill again, as the town leans on its two hills and a packed promenade.
Picture: the sands at Rhyl, with the promenade and seafront buildings behind the beach.
The foreshore is busy from Rhyl to Llandudno. A few streets back, tills stay quiet.
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Picture: Conwy Castle and the walled town, the view that puts the place on every heritage list.
Visitors climb the towers. Fewer of them stay long enough to keep every shop open.
Picture: Oriel Mostyn on Vaughan Street, the gallery at the centre of the festival map.
Three days of exhibitions and music after the late summer rush, with Mostyn as the hub.
Picture: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the canal crossing that marks the Dee valley stretch of the walk.
Hill tracks and the towpath are now one signed line from the high ground down the valley.
Picture: the Royal International Pavilion at Llangollen, the hall that held the choirs this summer.
The field filled again, and the Dee valley had its loudest week of the year.
Picture: the front of Ysgol Tryfan in Bangor, the Welsh medium school behind the season’s results.
Rugby, football, netball and athletics all carried the school through a full calendar.
Picture: Red Wharf Bay on Anglesey, the long sand where grey seals haul out to rest.
Wardens ask visitors to stay back, keep dogs on a lead, and leave the haul outs alone.
Picture: restored vintage tractors in a showground line, the same sight now on the Anglesey fields.
Old iron came out of the sheds and stood in working order on the showground grass.
Picture: Wrexham town centre, the border streets where more families now want Welsh medium places.
Welsh is being used in class, on the field and at the gate, not only in assembly.
Picture: Bangor University’s main stone building on the ridge. The new campus would sit on farmland beyond it.
Fields on the edge of the city have been bought for workshops, yards and skills courses.
Picture: Llyn Tegid, Bala Lake, the water that takes the Dee after it leaves the headwaters above the town.
Work on peat and drains has begun, aimed at holding rain higher in the hills.
Picture: the River Conwy at Llanrwst, the stretch where a wall is planned on the north bank.
Engineers want a defence where the bank is lowest and the houses stand closest.