Thermal

An amazing piece of luck saw us book this break about a month ago, and somehow pick 3 days in Northern Scotland in April, where a cloud wasn’t to be seen and we had weather you wouldn’t be upset with in August!
We headed north out of Aberdeenshire, into Moray and up the A85 via Aberlour [...]

Ouch, my puns get worse.
Erika has found this brilliant photo blog, consisting of dozens of photos of balancing stones. No, wait come back! Look at this:

Unbelievable isn’t it? There are dozens of photos like this, some of which you think must be glued, some are natural, and there’s some ancient stone circles as well, ‘cos [...]

Despite the incessant rain today, we got off our butts and headed for the hills. Half hours drive from home, we’re in the foothills of the Grampians and we went for a 6 mile hike up Greenhill, going via Whitehill Stone Circle.
The rain was pretty much constant for most of the walk, blowing around and [...]

Slightly un-wordless this week…

This wonderful painting of Callanish was painted for us by Kathryn of Mazoo Online Gallery, and is now on our lounge wall. Do check out her other pictures, and she has just started blogging as well - say hi here.
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I don’t need no stinkin’ spelcheker

 
Big sky, wide horizon, South Ythsie Stone Circle. I like Aberdeenshire.

The thing I have enjoyed most about blogging since starting 3 months ago, has been the chance to virtually meet and chat to so many different and interesting people from around the world (and Pinksy).
It’s cool that from a comment left by Kathryn on Blog-Op, I’ve managed to help her set up her first WordPress [...]

Probably not, unless you live in the north of Scotland. Anyway, it’s my home from above:

The super observant among you may be able to spot my garden by it’s odd shape. Google Earth is a fun toy, we can actually spot our neighbours car on this shot, and looking at my Mum’s old house in [...]

I have hundreds of megalithic pictures, so here’s another:

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Sunhoney

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A beautiful shot of Avebury Stone Circle in the SE of England, showing Orion in the night sky. The photo was taken by Pete Glastonbury; more of his work can be found here.