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How’s your Monday going? I really don’t like them to be honest but now it’s done and I would like to end it with a calming image from one of the Chicago’s Japanese Gardens. Really looking forward to the spring and new infrared season so I can get more images like this one. What do you think?
Any plans for the weekend? I was looking forward to it but it looks like the weather is planing to stay bad, so staying at home might not be such a bad idea. Till the next time, I will leave you with this mono landscape image from Tennessee. What do you think?
Are you ready? After yesterdays full blown snow storm I’m ready to be done with winter and really looking forward to some greenery! What do you think?
The sagebrush slowly taking the ghost town of Garlock back. The beautiful desert is claiming her own. Image shot in Garlock, California.
Part of my 'Duffus Castle through the seasons' project.
The castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
Badwater Basin with its hexagonal honeycomb shapes formed from the salts deposited in the basin. An incredible sight.
Serene California beach in Point Reyes, California. The beauty and texture of the sand, the breaking waves, and wispy clouds make for an incredible experience. I wish I was there right now.