Took the train through to Linlithgow this morning. It’s been a few years since I looked at the palace there and I thought it was time for another visit.
Most of the King Jameses added bits to it. James I built the first palace when the old castle was destroyed by a fire in [...]
The poor weather just didn’t know what to do today…so it hedged its bets and did everything.
Read the rest of this entry »Weather Underground seems to think that it might turn rather cool on Sunday:
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Time to dig out the long underwear, I guess.
Read the rest of this entry »Today is the first anniversary of my self-employment.
Financially it’s been the least rewarding year of my working life ever.
Emotionally, spiritually, mentally, physically it’s been the best.
I think I win!
I took my new camera (we loves it, my precious, oh yes we doooo!) down to the park this morning to give it a bit of a test drive. These pictures came out.
The feather was caught on a thread of spider’s web in a shaft of sunlight amongst the dark woods. No trickery [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Not many flowers left. Lots of ragwort, plenty of touch-me-nots, hardly any forget-me-nots.
Read the rest of this entry »I cycled out to the park between storms this morning to take a few pictures. It’s only been a month since I was there last, but almost all the summer flowers have gone. In fact, some of the trees are starting to turn. I thought it was still midsummer, not autumn! [...]
Read the rest of this entry »I’ve been talking chappie who works for a TV station in Pennsylvania. He’s producing a documentary about Columcille Megalithic Park and wants to use some of my pictures of Scottish sites that the place references – Callanish particularly. Which is a nice thing. Any time I pretend that my ego doesn’t care [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Yesterday I had just finished reading The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz when I heard that he had died that morning.
I’m almost afraid…hmmm…maybe I shouldn’t read living authors in future, just in case.
I’m reading Hemingway’s The Old Man And The Sea just now – I don’t think I can do any harm there.
Has George Bush [...]
Emmit Loves Squirrels
Emmit And Ziegfried Love Chipmunks
Everyone Loves Toads
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