Highland Park, Rochester, NY
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A scene from the beautiful Scottish Highlands, so lush and green, so full of spellbinding views.
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A Highland couple on holiday in a park to Metz-Magny for the summer.
Les vaches highlandaises
Un couple des Highlands en vacances pour l'été dans une parc de Metz-Magny
A scan of a slide, taken with a digital camera. Taken with a Pentax MX at the time.
Taken more years ago than I'd care to admit, in Perthshire, Scotland.
All I had at hand this time was my phone. I had to stop and take a shot of this mist splitting a beautiful Scottish landscape. We drove past few herds of deer. They were just coming out to party as the day drove to an end :)
NC500 somewhere at the North
Lovely Highland Cattle feeding.
Walking in the mud in the Chelsea Valley, Hipperholme in Brighouse, West Yorkshire
(In the Brighouse Echo and Halifax Courier 3/2/2022)
Explored 5/2/2022
We've rejoined the bike now and warmed up considerably from the chill at the summit of Mount Keen, which can be seen rising high in the distance. This is my view as I finish my sandwiches and get my breath back before the 6 mile downhill cycle back to the car.
Mount Keen is the most Easterly of all the Munros and although it is the closest to where I live, although I've climbed 10 others before climbing this, my 11th Munro. It stands at 939 Meters (3080 feet) and forms an almost perfect cone in its prominence. I made the ascent from Glen Tanar, cycling 6 miles in by bike (with an ascent of 210 meters / 689 feet), taking about 1.5 hours. This left me a final climb of just over 2 miles, with an ascent of 549 Meters (1801 feet), which I did surprisingly quickly (for me) at not much more than an hour. Including stops the whole trip was just over 4.5 hours, not bad for a 50 year old covering 16 miles of tough ground.
Highland cattle finding shade from the sun and they need it with those hairy coats! It's a wonder they can see where they're going with such a long fringe!
50. Interpretation of a famous painting....115 pictures in 2015
'Highland Cattle' by David Shepherd 1982
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A dam up in the Scottish highlands on a beautiful, clear Fall day in September.
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These cattle are a hardy breed, designed to withstand the conditions in the Scottish Highlands. Their long hair is actually an unusual double coat of hair- on the outside is the oily outer hair, the longest of any cattle breed, and it is covering a downy undercoat underneath. The bulls can way up to a whopping 800kg, and the cows up to 500kg, and their milk generally has a very high butterfat content.
Their distinctive long hair keeps them warm in winter, overs protection from the brush and undergrowth, protects their eyes from flies and is contributes to their stunning appearance which makes them so popular. The hair gets shorter in Summer and is not as long when they are bred in Southern climates. Having such long hair also means that they do not need to store the waste fat you find in some other breeds of cattle
Leaving Glen Quoich and Glen Dee behind we have one final view across the Scottish Highlands to the snow covered mountains in the distance.
I remember seeing highland cattle in this very spot when we showed 'English' Janet around a couple of years ago, it must be a favourite spot for keeping cool.