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The Bonny, Bonny Banks

Mid-July, and the #Scottish woodlands are gloriously green. The high mountain crags are showing their rocky teeth, and a lovely waterfall drops between the trees.

Loch Lomond (Loch Laomainn in Sc. Gaelic) is a freshwater loch which is considered the boundary between the lowlands of Central #Scotland and the Highlands.

Rowardennan Lodge with Ardess Lodge in the centre, at the foot of Ben Lomond.

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#ForestFriday #LochLomond #DailyPhoto #LandscapePhotography

A photo of a heavily wooded mountainside, the upper slopes are green with grasses and more scattered trees. Dappled sunlight from the left is playing across the contours, but the sky is out of shot. At centre right, a waterfall can be seen between the trees. Just above it and nearer to the centre, bare rock is visible. Down at the still waterline is a cluster of buildings and another, smaller one, to its right and nearer the centre. In the foreground is an out-of-focus tree branch covered in green leaves.
#Scotland #landscapephotography #dailyphoto #scottish #forestfriday #lochlomond @photography group

Many people have told me how they like to read the opening few paragraphs of books before buying.

So, here is the opening to mine, 'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt' which will be available for pre-order early 2025 and then released in August.

I'm a first time author, so shares mean a lot and I'd genuinely love to hear your thoughts.

#Writing #NatureWriting #Books #Bookstodon #Scotland #Caithness #Bookworm #Reading

I was eight years old when our mum moved us from one end of Scotland to the other. From Jedburgh, where you cross the border to England, to Thurso, where you catch the boat to Orkney. I don’t know what mum saw in Caithness, but I suspect it was just as far as she could go without leaving the country. Caithness is flat and vast and lies prostrate to a wind pushed inland by the thuggish North Sea. A wind that reminds anything attempting to grow that it should perhaps reconsider. On the heaths and moors, plants have no choice but to stay close to the ground and each other. Even in July, when the rest of Scotland is dressed by the full flair of summer, the Flow Country is understated. Thriving in the nutrient-poor soil, bog asphodel, myrtle and bean hide among heather and peat. In the skies above these rare blanket bogs, golden plover and greenshank float silently on warm air and mottled wings. On the coast, the sandstone shark fins of Duncansby Stacks ward off all but the most determined travellers. The Borders are Scotland at its most pastoral, but Caithness akin to a moonscape. I had never seen anything like it. On either side of a road, cutting long and straight through an expansive moorland, people stood in smoke and flames, soft-edged silhouettes as they beat the ground around them with huge paddles. Muirburn, the controlled burning of heather. It felt ancient, apocalyptic. Last paragraph missing as no room for all the text.
#books #Scotland #reading #writing #bookstodon #bookworm #caithness #naturewriting

#til that another nice thing about living in scotland is that scotrail offers free travel to job interviews for people looking for work - & THEN, when a job is secured, a month's worth of travel to get back & forth. that's pretty cool. yay, #scotland!
next, do free public transport for all. :)
#trains #publicTransport #travel
scotrail.co.uk/commuter/jobcen…
#Scotland #travel #til #trains #publictransport

Sunset Serenity

Beautiful Beauly Firth, near Inverness in north-eastern #Scotland at 9pm on a lovely July day.

In the distance is Ben Wyvis (meaning "Awesome Mountain"), topped by Glas Leathad Mòr, a Munro of 1046 metres/3432 feet.

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#DailyPhoto #WeatherPhotography #LandscapePhotography

A photo of a wide lake under a cyan sky, with scattered and puffy clouds which the sunset is tinting to shades of peach and pink. On the horizon is a line of dark mountains, the foreground is the lake's gravelly edge. The slightly ruffled water is reflecting the sky, and a bird is flying away at eye level. It's calm and serene.
#Scotland #landscapephotography #dailyphoto #weatherphotography @photography group

Not sure if this is something people here are interested in but there’s a #Croft for sale on Skye #smallholding #crofting #HobbyFarming #Scotland would only suit people who want to live there full-time and work the land as crofts need worked as part of the conditions of being a croft (not a holiday home). The house is a bit of a fixer upper but the site is beautiful.

Please Boost.
iosea.co.uk/upper-ollach/


Buy Property in Portree - Isle of Skye Estate Agency

Upper Ollach offers the opportunity to purchase a traditional four bedroom croft house set within private garden grounds in the tranquil and desirable
Portree Office (Isle of Skye Estate Agency)
#Scotland #hobbyfarming #crofting #smallholding #croft

Frosty dawn at Whithorn Priory this morning. #Scotland
Photo of frosty grass around old gravestones with ruins of priory behind.
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A message in Stone. Finding this was an added delight to the day. So clever!
#Morrison'sHaven #Scotland #myphoto
#myphoto #Scotland #Morrison

#introduction
Hey everyone!

Mo here, onward and upwards as is always the hope and desire.

I'm a fairly atypical Granny living in #Scotland, with an #Iceland photography obsession. I used to do games graphics many moons ago. I love weather photography, long slow walks getting slower due to stuff, my wonderful sons and my lovely patient partner.

Here's a drop-dead gorgeous shot to start this. Lómagnúpur in southern #Iceland.

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#DailyPhoto #WeatherPhotography #LandscapePhotography

A photo of a beautiful mountaintop draped in misty cloud. Below, in the foreground, are scarves of mist above a dark ground surface. The peak of the mountain is peeking out between layers of vapour -above is a glorious crown of lenticular clouds tinted by the sunset into shades of orange, peach and grey. The sky above is clearing to cyan.
#Scotland #introduction #landscapephotography #iceland #dailyphoto #weatherphotography @photography group

Discriminated against in our own country. This kind of class snobbery is one of the things I hate about the UK, but for it to be happening to Scottish people in a Scottish University, because they are Scottish?! #scotland #EdinburghUniversity #banprivateschools

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2nyr…


Edinburgh University warns students not to be 'snobs'

The institution admitted class-related prejudice was a problem on campus.
Angie Brown (BBC News)
#Scotland #banprivateschools #edinburghuniversity

This is an interesting, if uncritical, interview with Greg Jackson, CEO of Octopus Energy. He mentions that if regional pricing was in operation in the UK energy market, #Scotland would have the cheapest electricity in Europe (see from 10m 43s).

I'll let you decide what mix of political issues has prevented Westminster from implementing regional pricing, but we in Scotland are paying through the nose for their intransigence.

#Octopus #Energy #ScotPol

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#energy #Scotland #octopus #scotpol

#silentSunday #Scotland #photography #horses #sculpture
A square photo of The Kelpies, a steel sculpture, around 30 metres tall, of two horse heads. The one in front has its head down, the one behind is rearing up. They shine brightly against a dark grey sky. At the base you can see some people walking by, dwarfed by the sculptures.
#photography #Scotland #sculpture #silentsunday #horses

#silentSunday #Scotland #photography #horse #sculpture
A square photo of one of The Kelpies. It is a large steel sculpture of a horse head. This photo is taken standing just underneath the one that has its head down, so its snout is very close to the camera and it appears to be smiling down at the photographer. Behind it is a bright blue sky with wispy white clouds.
#photography #Scotland #sculpture #silentsunday #horse

Janey Godley has died from cervical cancer. She was only 63. R.I.P. to a very funny lady.

theguardian.com/stage/2024/nov…

#Scotland #JaneyGodley


Scottish comedian Janey Godley dies aged 63

Godley, whose comedy drew upon her Glasgow upbringing, died ‘surrounded by her loved ones’, her management says
Rachael Healy (The Guardian)
#Scotland #janeygodley

Someone going for a wee paddle along the shoreline at Applecross, with some of the Isle of Skye Cuillins in the distance
#scotland #seaside
A black and white image of a person in the distance walking alongside the shoreline, with mountains in the distance
#Scotland #seaside

- Hey, you've not been about much the last week or so. Been busy?

- Oh aye. Rushed off my feet. Well... sort of. A bit. Maybe.

#photography #Scotland

A photo of a loch. The water is gently rippled, and reflecting the orange and greens of the hillside that's out of shot. A stone has been skipped across the water. There are seven sets of concentric circles, larger in the foreground and getting smaller, and beyond that there is a splash of water flying up as the stone finally sinks.
#photography #Scotland

Dun Beag is one of the best preserved brochs and a good example of a broch tower.

Brochs only appear in Scotland. They are dry stone structures formed of two concentric walls with a narrow entrance passage. Stone stairs ran between the walls to provide access, perhaps to upper floors, and the top.

Scotland’s brochs were built in the Iron Age, first emerging about 2,300 years ago. Their use continued at some until the middle of the first millennium CE.

#Broch #scotland #struan #isleofskye

Perched on a rocky hilltop, it displays a number of defensive features. The entrance is a narrow passage, and door-checks show it was once closed by a timber door. Once inside, there are very few breaks in the strong, tall dry stone walls. One opening, at ground level, leads to a small chamber – possibly a guardroom. Another leads to a narrow stone stair, of which 20 steps still survive, with another possible guard cell at the entrance.  It is likely to have been about 10 metres tall although there is only about 3 metres still standing. It would have been an imposing feature in the landscape. The view from up there takes in Loch Bracadale and the Outer Hebrides in the distance. Brodie the Fox Red Labrador is there to provide some scale.
#Scotland #isleofskye #struan #broch

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