View allAll Photos Tagged monoart
Hope you are all still well? Walls a slowly lifting here in the midwest and the boats returning to the lake are the sign of the summer beginning. I really hope to be the good one. We really do need that right now. What do you think?
THE WAY OF LIGHT
“Creativity Is Allowing Yourself to Make Mistakes. Art Is Knowing Which Ones to Keep” - Scott Adams
Mirror Lake located in Yosemite Valley, California. First snow and the hike in was very cold this day. It was well worth it though.
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." - Aristotle
Mottes were common in Scotland the 1100s and 1200s, before they were replaced by stone castles. They were fortifications, usually consisting of a wooden keep on top of an artificial earthwork mound. Some also had an enclosed courtyard or bailey, containing additional wooden buildings, protected by a ditch and palisade.
Duffus Castle was a fortress–residence for more than 500 years, from the 1100s to the 1700s. The stone castle we see today was built in the 1300s, replacing an earlier timber fortress.
Once one of the strongest castles in Scotland, it was reduced to a decaying ruin by the time of its abandonment in 1705. But the castle remains an impressive sight, situated on a mound rising out of the flat Laich of Moray.