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Windows: Edinburgh Castle
It’s about time I started another photography theme, and the next one I’ve chosen is ‘Windows’. This one is in the Royal Apartments at Edinburgh Castle, in the tiny room where, on 19th June 1566, Mary...
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Windows: Old Castle Lachlan
Something to brighten a rainy day… the view from a window in Old Castle Lachlan on Loch Fyne. This is the ancient stronghold of the Maclachlans of Strathlachlan, and it certainly has some stories to...
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Clava Cairns
We came across Clava Cairns as the sun sank in the winter sky, glinting through the branches and leaving deep shadowy hollows still thick with frost from the night before. It’s a place that you have to...
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Windows: Dunfermline Abbey
The third in my photo-series is this beautiful stained glass window by Douglas Strachan in the old nave of Dunfermline Abbey. It was commissioned in 1916 by the famous Dunfermline-born businessman...
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The Lerags Cross
What can be more perfect than a leisurely drive down a country road in midsummer, with the verges waist-high in flowers and ferns? Argyll is criss-crossed with many such single-track roads, and a week...
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Kilbride Kirk, Lerags
Just a stone’s throw from the Lerags Cross is the lovely ruined church and graveyard of Kilbride, traditional resting place of the MacDougalls… You really have to be looking for Kilbride Kirk in order...
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Blackness Castle
There are some castles that look best in the light of winter, with a muted sea and a fine drizzle descending from a sky of battleship grey. Blackness Castle, on the south coast of the Firth of Forth,...
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Standing stone near Loch Ederline
From the village of Kilmichael Glassary in Argyll, a minor road winds its way north-east then almost directly north alongside the Clachandubh Burn. The road has three gates, and after Loch Leathan,...
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Windows: Culross Palace
Ornate dormer windows in the top rooms of Culross Palace, once the opulent family home of Sir George Bruce (c.1550-1625). Bruce was an innovator, devising new methods of mining coal under the sea bed,...
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Three favourite woodlands for autumn colour
There’s something very special about wandering through a woodland in autumn, with the sound of a stream tumbling in a gorge below your feet and leaves floating down all around you. As a wet, windy and...
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