I don’t like spiders. If I have a phobia, that’s the one. And I’ve been taught by bad movies which the really nasty spiders are. So when, one morning at our Sedona motel, Nora said: Oooh, look – black widow! I was more inclined to run away than anything else.
But I have [...]

I went back to The Caterthuns on a non-foggy day, plus the landscaped/wild stone circles of Cullerlie and Nine Stanes.

Friends and family, or a cold, wet walk around a loch? Who’re you calling anti-social?

Christmas wouldn’t be christmas without gratuitous pictures of mushrooms. Lots of them around Loch Ardinning today!

I loved the way the light shone down through the stem of the last one!

I’m up around Aberdeen for a few days, avoiding the christmas madness.
Yesterday I went to look at the Iron Age (about 2500-3000 years old) hill forts on the Caterthuns. There wasn’t much to be seen:

The fog had cleared by the time I got to Easter Aquorthies stone circle at sunset:

and hadn’t returned to obscure [...]

There’s a couple of panels in Asterix In Britain that read something like
Asterix: Is it always this foggy in Britain?
Asterix’s British Pal: Goodness, no. Only when it’s not raining.
I’m in Aberdeen just now, and things haven’t gone entirely to plan. On the drive up I passed a sign pointing to Aberlemno. [...]

Not generally interesting, I’m sure…
Just to answer an on-line conversation from the other day about how high the sun gets (or doesn’t get) in Scotland…this was 5 minutes before noon today.

Tent Rocks is just south of Santa Fe – we were on our way to the city and thought we’d go take a look for half an hour. We stayed for nearly five hours and almost didn’t get to Santa Fe at all.
It’s an area of volcanic ash that’s been eroded by rain over [...]

If only I could order skies and light like this every time I time I’m out with a camera.

One of the better known (and often photographed) Anasazi ruins, roughly 1000 years old.