random thoughts

  • What does Poppy do on holiday?

    What does Poppy do on holiday?

    This fluffy girl has a limited set of requirements when on holiday and for variety she sometimes combines tasks. She has a tough life 😉

    Official portrait

     

    Sunbathing and eating

     

    Swimming

     

    Sunbathing again

     

    Eating

     

    Eating again

     

    …yes more.

     

    Summer selfie

     

    Oh and don’t forget the eating.

     

  • Sense of seaside

    Sense of seaside

    Perhaps it was many summers exploring the island of Millport as a child that explain my love of the seaside. The screetch of seagulls brought a wave of happiness as you awoke then realised the noise meant a day roaming rocks and beach. Oh and the inevitable wet shoes by lunch which somehow made mum unhappy.

    These shots were taken in Dornoch on Scotland’s north east coast. We took the family camping a few years and always had great weather. Its ‘big sky’ country, akin to Montana’s rolling fields, blue skies and dramatic cloud formations. A performance of microscopic water droplets on a Wagnerian scale. These are detail shots of the beach.

     

    Muscle shell
    Muscle shell

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Clackmannan in the Cold

    Clackmannan in the Cold

    This was a typically unpredictable morning. With a high pressure system in charge giving cold, frost and fog which had descended over Clackmannan meaning views were very peek-a-boo minute to minute. These photographs were taken from Kings Seat Hill upon which the parish of Clackmannan nestles.

    It offers great views into Fife in the East, Ochils and Perthshire in the north, Stirling east and Falkirk to the south. The Bruce family settled and built one of the County of Clackmannanshire’s five towers to project their power.

    Sunrise over the cold rooftops of Clackmannan

     

    Robert the Bruce's Clackmannan Tower
    Clackmannan Tower below the Moon

     

    The Wallace Monument in Stirling and snow-capped Campsies in the distance with Alloa in the mist

     

    Clackmannanshire and Kincardine bridges in cold weather with the heat of Grangemouth bubbling-up clouds

     

    Robert the Bruce’s Clackmannan Tower in the mist

     

    Snow-capped Ochils

     

  • Sunset on Stirling

    Sunset on Stirling

    This is an old sequence of images I took in 2010 of the statue of Colonel Sir David Stirling, founder of the Special Air Service (SAS). It is located on the outskirts of Dunblane and Doune.

    Colonel Sir David Stirling
    Colonel Sir David Stirling

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  • Trossachs turning

    Trossachs turning

    Some autumn detail from around the Trossachs.
     

     Pool of Menteith 

     Watery eyes 

     Fall 

     Autumn torrent 

      

     Pinned to the rock 

     Wet fungi

  • Poppy Trumped

    Poppy Trumped

    Poppy does a Donald, but she prefers “sidesaddle’.

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