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Tracks in the earth
Posted on March 30, 2022
After a lot of heavy rain earlier in the month, the past week or so has been warmer and sunnier (it won’t last). This has helped to dry out the previously sodden ground, but nonetheless there is still ample evidence in the surrounding fields of the passage of farm tractors through the mud.
Send in the clean-up team
Posted on March 23, 2022
Sheep markets are held regularly in our local village. They take place on the Rue du Marché Ovin (it means…er, ‘Sheep Market Road’). When I was recently mooching around the metal pens I had obviously just missed one.
In the circumstances, you can’t really blame the sheep for being nervous, I suppose.
Crossing the Forth
Posted on March 16, 2022
Driving north on the new(ish) Queensferry Crossing over the River Forth.
Not ‘The Ring’
Posted on March 2, 2022
I was playing around in Lightroom with an otherwise ho-hum photograph of a clump of trees in the Beecraigs Country Park in central Scotland and came up with this slightly unsettling image that reminded me a little of the 2002 horror film ‘The Ring’.
Alma mater
Posted on February 16, 2022
This is one of the many fine, typically Scottish stone buildings that form the estate of St Leonard’s School in St Andrews, my daughter’s eye-wateringly reassuringly expensive boarding school all those years ago.
Three Knights
Posted on February 9, 2022
Nothing to see here…
Three knights in armour chatting on a street in the nearby village of Rancon. Couldn’t have anything to do with it being the day of the medieval fair, could it?
Just Hanging Around….
Posted on February 2, 2022
Cee’s theme for her Fun Foto Challenge this week is ‘Oddball’. I think this qualifies.
After all, surely one of the things you least expect to see when you go off to the commune’s depot in order to gather some material with which to decorate a float for a parade is an artificial skeleton suspended from the rafters (and no, it wasn’t for a Hallowe’en parade either).
Saint Fillan’s Cave
Posted on January 26, 2022
Is it a door or is it a gate? Let’s compromise and call it a gate in a doorway.
This little grotto was said to be the dwelling place of the Christian ascetic Saint Fillan. It’s very small, which is why it’s tucked away in a a little alleyway in Pittenweem.
Call the glazier
Posted on January 12, 2022
The best you can say about these windows is that they let the light in.
Along with everything else.
This tower is part of the ruins of the medieval castle in St. Andrews.
Across The Forth
Posted on January 5, 2022
You may think that this image of the Firth of Forth was captured at sunset. However, it was actually taken just before noon and is looking due south from the Fife village of Pittenweem towards East Lothian in the distance.
It’s all a matter, when shooting into the sun, of keeping the sun itself out of the image.
I think it certainly fits the brief for this week’s ‘Fun Foto’ theme of ‘water, water everywhere’.
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