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The “Bass Rock” is an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland. Approximately 1 mile offshore, and 3 miles north-east of North Berwick, it is a steep-sided volcanic plug 351 ft at its highest point, It plays host to 150.000 gannets, the world’s largest colony of the species.
This photo was taken from the viewing platform at the top of the 95ft high “Hopetoun Monument” which stands atop Byres Hill in East Lothian, and is approx 9.5miles away from Bass Rock…….as the crow flies. The monument is a category B listed building and it’s 132 spiral steps take you to the platform where the views are fantastic. As you can see……….
Some more of the shiny fungi freshly turned out, spotted whilst walking in Byreburn woods this morning.
Rewind four years to the spring of 2012, and this classy Alexander PS type bodied Volvo B10M descends Byres Road in Glasgow's fashionable west end on service 8.
Love these century old barns, where the cows were milked below and loose piles of hay were stored in a loft (now long gone) at the top of the stairs.
Project 365-262
Early on the first morning of the year 1880 the young lady house keeper of Belmomt Farm, near the village of Blanchland - the right most ruin in the image above - found blood on the floor of the cow byre at the left end of the house. In the loft she found the lifeless body of the infirm farmers eldest son. He had been killed by a blow from a hammer which lay close by. The local constable and doctor arrived later in the and the county authorities some days later, by which time loft had been scrubbed clean by the infirm farmer.
The house keeper was tried for and acquitted of murder.
In the 1881 census the house keeper was recorded as working in a town some 30 miles away. A younger son was working the farm and the still infirm owner had taken on another young woman as house keeper.
No one ever went to the gallows for the murder of Robert Snowball.
Everything on this croft was built of stone the wee sheds and the house and the byre built to last of course
This little hairstreak may seem ordinary, just like the rest with the same gray-brown color with spots and a hindwing patch. But Edwards Hairstreaks is rare in Maryland (S1 Highly state are) and lives only in a specific habitat with its host plant, the Scrub Oak (Quercus ilicifolia).
This hairstreak has a rather peculiar lifestyle spending part of its life in underground ant chambers (known as byres) and as an adult butterfly emerges from those dark chambers and must crawl into the sunlight.
Cleverly, the third instar larva develop a special gland that produces a sugary substance attractive to ants and in exchange for this treat the ants protect the larva from predators and parasites. Daily, in the darkness of night, the hairstreak larva travels in attendance of ants up the trunk of the host tree where it feeds on young leaves and catkins and then at dawn it crawls back into the underground where it continues to be attended by ants.
This daily ritual continues from spring until the larva is ready to form a chrysalis. In mid-summer, a fresh butterfly emerges (from the underground) and takes the first breath of air and dries its wings in the sunlight.
Edwards Hairstreak is univoltine (single-brooded) and spends fall and winter as an egg. It is on the wing as an adult butterfly only for a shot time in mid-summer.
Pressed into service today is one of the pair of loaned ERMs from Edinburgh Tours. Caught in Byres Rd with the excellent Tennents Bar in the background. Highly recommended for its range of guest ales.
Fairy Loup (Leap) is a waterfall on Byre Burn near Canonbie.
In Hugh McDiarmid's poem "The Water of Life" it appears in the lines:
"Describe the Fairy Loup, the thunder-plump,
The moss-boil on the moor, the white-topped tide;"
thunder-plump: thunder shower
moss-boil: a spring in a mossy place
Much less visited than Rosslyn Chapel on the opposite Western Bank of The North Esk river you will find The Wallace Cave. There are several Wallace Caves in Scotland. There is only one Wallace Cave in Roslin Glen. There are also caves under Hawthornden Castle. If you are going to Rosslyn Chapel I hope that you have a great visit and if you have a chance do walk in the Roslin Glen. The Castle and the Chapel retain the older name of Rosslyn and the contemporary village has the newer name of Roslin.
Both the Focused and Focusless Fabulous Fungi a Miraculous Magical Mushroom were a joint effort. I managed in Manual Focus to capture an impressionistic rendering and a photographic view of the same rather large mushroom. My lighting expert is not on Flickr so I cannot link them locally and I do not have permission to link them further afield. He is a great companion to share a historically important cave with. Our focus on photography led us to moths and small gnats and large spiders with varying fungi and moss and lichen. The clean air just 8 miles from Edinburgh enables some fantastic growths that increase in quantity and size as you move further away from the city into more vibrant landscapes that support such greater growth. The size and vitality of the Mushroom was so unexpected that I have labelled it fabulous, miraculous and magical as it certainly appeared that way being the only such branching out extended growth from the rock face with roots nestled in a shallow crack.
The cave shows many pick marks from it having being extended and masoned sections where door and fittings have been fitted and broken away. The valley side opposite Rosslyn Chapel and Castle has a path way and viewing platforms cut into the cliff sides. The cave itself is not too large and the Mushroom as focus of attention and camera here looks quite unlikely to be natural and also at the same time possible so. It does appear like something brought in affixed and maybe even tended. There is a bed of rushes in the cave, changed annually and often dressed into the form of a sleeping figure. This Both Focused and Focusless Fabulous Fungi a Miraculous Magical Mushroom that proudly proclaims itself present and potent whilst discreetly declining any casual further investigation beyond speculation such as I have delivered here.
There is a legend of a Black Hen, don’t say Pullet, that is noted as confusing treasure seekers and grail hunters by digging holes to false terrain the site and to fill in half dug holes for when seekers return to complete their excavations and further still through special skill to carefully indicate the better and best grounds to explore through careful talon and beak soil manipulation. There are further tails of either this Black Hen, or of another such similar still don’t say Pullet, Black Hen, maybe there is just the one, or possibly there are a pair of magical soil shrouders at work? The other hen story relates to a treasure hidden under a stair. The exact stair can be correctly deduced in a manner not fully revealed within the story. Any stair testing and excavating can and will lead to the Black Hen II, this time the truth will not out*, moving the treasure when the excavators are in the right area and also the hen will bamboozle the grail hunters with special Holy Hen Acts that will confuse, strain, enrage and bring chaos to order and the ‘BH II’ wonder guard will clear up after the said chaos and restore all to proper order til the right, maybe even righteous, approach of the mythic legendary treasure grail hunter seekers who are destined to step on the right step at the right time in the right manner possibly with the left foot.
Please only read good humour and faithful following in my words above. I have followed signs to Rosslyn Chapel and parked when there were just a few spaces next to the old barn and byre. I have wandered in the beauty of the landscape and listened to the stories and here share some quickly to say that this is a place of beauty and of mystery, both of folly and of faith with a river bend bringing out rock inscribed from thousands of years ago to natural and extended caves, with castles and chapels, formerly and currently hosting services and battles til a part of the past seems to have been deeply woven here such that we choose to look at it again and again making pilgrimage and enacting rampage all engaged through marvellous mysteries and eldritch histories far beyond our fascination and into our fine fashioned fulgent fabricated fantasies.**
*Black Hen I also assured that the truth would not out, Black Hen II is not a fully fledged sequel as of course it could be one Hen, not a Pullet, successfully stealth working both grounds and stairs.
**Please do not test the Hen, or Hens, not Pullets, as you could be destroying a beautiful and historial protected place that is best left none Hen tested and none destroyed. Age, atmosphere and our antecedents have done more than enough destruction and also they had with them those that fought to give enough preservation and conservation too.
© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
Welcome to Rosslyn Chapel
Hawthornden Castle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project
artsandculture.google.com/asset/hawthornden-castle-near-e...
Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle
Hawthornden Foundation
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825
portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::::VIE...
ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327
portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::::VIE...
Roslin Glen
Rosslyn Chapel Trust is responsible for the conservation and care of part of the picturesque landscape known as Roslin Glen, which is adjacent to Rosslyn Castle and Rosslyn Chapel.
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.midlothian.gov.uk/directory_record/171/roslin_glen_co...
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings
canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave
Archaeology Notes
Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle
Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001
1:20,000Map Scale:
Council: Midlothian
Designation Reference: GDL00327
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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE
GDL00327
portal-beta.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::...
Gorton House Rock Carving(S) (Post Medieval)(Possible)
Lower Coignashie was one of several abandoned farmsteads along the eastern bank of the River Findhorn. The hill rising steeply behind it is the 2448 ft Carn Coire Easgrabath.
Milne's Court is well-hidden gem of Edinburgh
Milne's (or Mylnes) Court was built in 1690 by Robert Milne of Balfarg, the Royal Master Mason, and the 7th member of his family to hold the title. The development had an open central court instead of narrow closes and was the first of its kind in Edinburgh.
From the Lawnmarket, Milne’s Court is well-hidden and the only clues are a small sign above the entrance to the pend, and the date 1690 carved into the stonework. However, if you stand back on the other side of the road and look up, you can take in the true size and scale of building. When it was completed, the size and regularity of Milne’s Court would have presented a startling comparison to its much smaller, higgledy-piggledy neighbours. Walking through the pend gives you a real impression of stepping back hundreds of years, emerging out into a courtyard with the seventeenth century building towering above you.
In its day the building represented the very best in lavish fashionable living. The Edinburgh Poll Tax returns for 1694 give us a snapshot of the first residents, who were mostly middle-class professionals such as Dr William Blackadder ‘Kings Physician to the forces’. Many of these new residents also appear on another document – the subscription book of the disastrous Darien Company. The Darien scheme was an unsuccessful attempt to establish a Scottish colony in Panama. A mixture of hostile local tribes, inadequate supplies and tropical diseases meant that whole plan was aborted after only eight months.
James Byres, who lived on one of the upper floors at Milne’s Court, was a leading city merchant, and was chosen in 1699 to be one of the ‘men of special trust’ to be in charge of the second expedition. He arrived to find the colony abandoned, and after two months escaped to Jamaica leaving many colonists behind. The Darien Company Directors found him guilty of “several unwarrantable, arbitrary, illegal and inhumane practices”, but he continued to trade and he died at sea in 1706.
Like many Old Town houses, by the 19th century Milne’s Court had lost its middle-class residents, and living conditions for residents were appalling. A visitor in 1856, complained that the close was: “…unapproachable by any one who is not compelled by necessity to go into them.” The Census in 1871 described: “A densely populated square…irregularly numbered, very dirty, and anything but a free current of air…In one house of three rooms, on Sunday night there slept fourteen souls of different sexes and no family connections.”
Finally in 1960 the city engineer declared the north part of the building unsafe, and gave a deadline of 21 days before demolition would start. Edinburgh University had expressed an interest, but now the pressure was on, and plans to stabilise the building were drawn up and passed by the council’s planning committee in only 10 days. With the help of donations from Harold Salvesen and Philip Henman, Milne’s Court was restored as student accommodation and opened in 1969.
Today Milne’s Court is a desirable place to live again, helping to keep the Old Town alive, and yet a stone’s throw away from the throng of tourists on the Royal Mile.
Text from
ewh.org.uk/explore/iconic-buildings-and-monuments/milnes-...
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On my way home along Edenside, saw one of these sporting above a roadside byre. Stopped, hopeful of an early shot or two since these often seem to follow a rough patrol circle and sure enough several minutes later it returned but this time there was a small number of them dog fighting in swerving playful darts over the byre. Some slow enough to allow a burst to succeed. Hence the above.
I spotted this old bus coming down Byres Road in Glasgow.
Memories of jumping off the moving bus with cuts and bruises after misjudging the speed - OUCH!!
The First Day of Spring
Aspyn in the yard, in bright evening sunshine on Tuesday, 20 March. Here, she is just taking a breather before continuing her chase of Ypache, who deftly wheeched into one of the byres/barns.
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
Top right is the abrupt cone of Pike o' Stickle, where greenstone was quarried by hand to make stone axes.
Nikon film camera, Nikon scanner.
Old stone byre, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The farmer makes certain that this heifer's firstborn has his fill of colostrum, while the inquisitive mother examines my camera.
If you are going to Rosslyn Chapel I hope that you have a great visit and if you have a chance do walk in the Roslin Glen. The Castle and the Chapel retain the older name of Rosslyn and the contemporary village has the newer name of Roslin.
If you are on the Western Bank of The North Esk river you can visit The Wallace Cave. There are several Wallace Caves in Scotland. There is only one Wallace Cave in Roslin Glen. There are also caves under Hawthronden Castle.
There is a legend of a Black Hen, don’t say Pullet, that is noted as confusing treasure seekers and grail hunters by digging holes to false terrain the site and to fill in half dug holes for when seekers return to complete their excavations and further still through special skill to carefully indicate the better and best grounds to explore through careful talon and beak soil manipulation. There are further tails of either this Black Hen, or of another such similar still don’t say Pullet, Black Hen, maybe there is just the one, or possibly there are a pair of magical soil shrouders at work? The other hen story relates to a treasure hidden under a stair. The exact stair can be correctly deduced in a manner not fully revealed within the story. Any stair testing and excavating can and will lead to the Black Hen II, this time the truth will not out*, moving the treasure when the excavators are in the right area and also the hen will bamboozle the grail hunters with special Holy Hen Acts that will confuse, strain, enrage and bring chaos to order and the ‘BH II’ wonder guard will clear up after the said chaos and restore all to proper order til the right, maybe even righteous, approach of the mythic legendary treasure grail hunter seekers who are destined to step on the right step at the right time in the right manner possibly with the left foot.
Please only read good humour and faithful following in my words above. I have followed signs to Rosslyn Chapel and parked when there were just a few spaces next to the old barn and byre. I have wandered in the beauty of the landscape and listened to the stories and here share some quickly to say that this is a place of beauty and of mystery, both of folly and of faith with a river bend bringing out rock inscribed from thousands of years ago to natural and extended caves, with castles and chapels, formerly and currently hosting services and battles til a part of the past seems to have been deeply woven here such that we choose to look at it again and again making pilgrimage and enacting rampage all engaged through marvellous mysteries and eldritch histories far beyond our fascination and into our fine fashioned fulgent fabricated fantasies.**
*Black Hen I also assured that the truth would not out, Black Hen II is not a fully fledged sequel as of course it could be one Hen, not a Pullet, successfully stealth working both grounds and stairs.
**Please do not test the Hen, or Hens, not Pullets, as you could be destroying a beautiful and historial protected place that is best left none Hen tested and none destroyed. Age, atmosphere and our antecedents have done more than enough destruction and also they had with them those that fought to give enough preservation and conservation too.
© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
Welcome to Rosslyn Chapel
Hawthornden Castle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project
artsandculture.google.com/asset/hawthornden-castle-near-e...
Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle
Hawthornden Foundation
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825
portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::::VIE...
ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327
portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::::VIE...
Roslin Glen
Rosslyn Chapel Trust is responsible for the conservation and care of part of the picturesque landscape known as Roslin Glen, which is adjacent to Rosslyn Castle and Rosslyn Chapel.
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.midlothian.gov.uk/directory_record/171/roslin_glen_co...
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings
canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave
Archaeology Notes
Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle
Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001
1:20,000Map Scale:
Council: Midlothian
Designation Reference: GDL00327
portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=PORTAL:document:...
ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE
GDL00327
portal-beta.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::...
Gorton House Rock Carving(S) (Post Medieval)(Possible)
ExPLoReD! No 129 on 21st December 2016.
Primrose Bank is the owners home, the large Victorian house in the middle. On either side of it are two holiday cottages. We stay in the one to the right, The Old Cider Mill (hidden behind the trees). In Caynham near Ludlow in Shropshire.
[Lord of The Dusk]
Jaspyr, returned at midnight on Tuesday, having been wandering the Southern Uplands since Thursday, last week.
He came in, shouting for food and attention, ate as if it was going out of fashion then slept for two days. He finally surfaced, this afternoon, on the roof of the old stone byre.
He seems very happy to be home and has absolutely no idea that I've been wringing out my heart...
SW Scotland
Give to me the life I love
Let the lave go by me.
Give the jolly heaven above
And the byway nigh me.
Bed in the bush with stars to see
Bread I dip in the river.
There's the life for a man like me
There's the life forever.
R L Stevenson - "The Vagabond"
Pennies from heaven
Don't make me laugh
Here all you'll get
Is the pattering rain
Or yon two crows up over the hill
Looking for winterkill
Always at your boots
The mud behind the byre
With its clammy hold
Would mock you up a grave
Here in the mire of a wrecked sheepfold
And all you'll bring to this
Is muscle and grit
Persistence, that's just about it
What made you think
There'd be a living in sheep?
Eat, work, eat, work and sleep
Duck under the eaves
Of the bothy
To sit here, caged by rain
Somewhere to go conjure
A next move
When I have to think again
The dog lifts his gaze to plead
Believes the wizard has a magic stick
Leans his weight into my tweed
I give an unholy hand to lick
I take a swig of sheep dip
From my flask
And once again I ask
What made you think
There'd be a living in sheep?
Eat, work, eat, work and sleep
They were at this game
Two hundred years ago
Had thirty ways
Of dying young, poor souls
Laid to rest in their soggy rows
Rain on their holy books
Blood and whisky
On the tongue
And no-one watching over anyone
No-one left but your stubborn one
And the crows and rooks
Ah, the dying young
Well I'm not done
You watch me and I'll watch thee
I can still work for two men
And drink for three
And I raise my flask
To the clearing skies
To you, sweepers
You carrion spies
To scavenge and survive
If you can do it so can I
Mark Knopfler
A trip up to Byreburn woods on the fungi trail, not much about as it has been too dry of late. However I did spot a few of these about , quite near to beech trees but not 100%sure of their ID ...
Possibly "Porcelain fung"i (Oudemansiella mucida) , they were so shiny and gloss like on the surface.
2720 pcs
“Unite the Crystals of Power in an epic final showdown at the Sorcerer’s Cathedral!”
—Bring statue guardians to life by pressing levers on both sides to spring them from the facade
—Drop chandeliers on intruders in the nave, or launch them with a surprise earthquake
—Turn the central plinth to access all the Sea, Mage, Wisdom and Air Crystals
—Also features hidden treasure, ringing bells, a secret potion room, and a rock dropper
—Gold dragon Byre features 19 points of articulation
—Cathedral measures over 17” (43cm) long, with a spire nearly 17” (43cm) tall
—Includes 6 minifigures: Vultog the berserker, Orian the dragon rider, Althior the wizard, Moscha the necormancer, Kunaye the mage, and Zagro the alchemist
See more images on my website. Instructions coming soon to Build Better Bricks.
Distressed that the crofting way of life was disappearing some ex-pat Shetlanders set about preserving some tangible trace of what they had left behind. I'll leave aside the obvious questions about where they went and how they lived…This little croft was occupied up until the 1960s. I don't find it so remarkable. My grandparents lived in a cobbled together mud cottage without electricity or running water until 1969. How things have changed.
The exterior walls are low but there's more headroom inside. Those proportions probably worked more efficiently against Shetland's weather. The roof is clad externally with oat straw, weighed down with netting tied into stones. I never established if there was turf or heather beneath the oats.
Habitable space inside was confined to two rooms at this end. In the middle was a kind of work/storeroom and at the other end was an animal byre. That conical stone structure would have traditionally been a kiln to dry grain. It's all very compact and practical. In the absence of modern convenience, this would do nicely.
43177 leads with 43133 on the rear of 1B30, 12.48 Inverness to Edinburgh emerging from the tunnel at the Byres of Murthly between Dunkeld and Stanley on the Highland Main Line, Tuesday 13.5.25
Abandoned in 1931, these ruins are accessible only after a 90 minute walk from the nearest public road. The nearby bothy used to be the byre (cattle shed) and was used as a set in the 2013 film "Under the Skin" starring Scarlett Johansson.
This beautifully conserved dwelling and byre in Glen Lochay, near Killin, offers a unique insight into rural life in 19th-century and early 20th century Scotland. There are 5 jointed and pegged cruck couples, two of which can be viewed easily in the byre end of the house. The roof was originally thatched but this was raked back in the 1940s and covered with corrugated tin.
I had to do a bit of clambering down to get this shot, the stonework to the left has decayed a lot since my last visit 3 years ago.
The shop is situated in a very busy street in Edinburgh and for tourists who have been to Edinburgh they would probably know where Byres Close is. Having said that, I have no idea of how business is like, nor do I understand the rationale of the window display. But for viewers who care to take a closer look, I endeavour to say, the slanting column inside and slanting shades and straight lines outside help the composition.