Hawthornden Castle a bright gem basking in the Spring Sunlight beyond...

 

Hawthornden Castle a bright gem basking in the Spring Sunlight beyond the shadows embraced in the foliage of Rosslyn Glen

Hawthornden Castle stands atop several layers of caves that have been extended into amazing chambers visited by many famous people on their Scottish tours. The castle is one of three close together all taking advantage of the steep escarpment that offers natural rock protection above the North Esk river flowing swiftly below. Roslin Glen is home to Rosslyn Castle and many believe the Holy Grail resides here too, there are wonderful legends and fantastic natural formations throughout the glen, plenty enough to enjoy even beyond the quest for the Holy Grail.

Linked below are Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh by Alexander Nasmyth from the Google Art Project and both Roslin Glen cared for by Rosslyn Chapel Trust, as well as Roslin Glen Country Park and also Wallace’s Cave, the other cave and prehistoric rock carvings.

The Hawthornden Foundation is linked below they are a part of bigger project with events and hosting writers to stay in places such as Hawthornden Castle for a month of focused literary working days.

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Hawthornden Castle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle

Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Nasmyth_-_Hawthornden_Castle,_near_Edinburgh_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle
https://www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle

Hawthornden Foundation
https://www.hawthornden.org/

Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM6825

ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/GDL00327

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.
https://www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/

Roslin Glen Country Park
https://www.midlothian.gov.uk/directory_record/171/roslin_glen_country_park

Roslin Glen Country Park
https://g.co/kgs/bdC6DQf

'Wallace's Cave'
https://canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave

Archaeology Notes
https://canmore.org.uk/event/712032

Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle
Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001
1:20,000Map Scale:
Council: Midlothian
Designation Reference: GDL00327
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/document/600000778

The monument known as Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/document/600012599

Urquhart Castle Tower House and Loch Ness as you have never seen before ...

Urquhart Castle Tower House and Loch Ness

as you have never seen before reflected on itself

I hope that no one except myself has seen these exact views and heard this soundtrack before I share it online as I believe that I live alone and now I have started asking myself about anyone else watching in on my world more than I do already. This is a Saturday morning and the outer limits of a husk of hollow Saturn ideas are even now sinking further into my bones. The hollow nature of a Saturnian dilemma provides it with fashion and form without certain supposed strength that in lacking a less standard body evades any and all concept of vital validity that gives determined deleting a chance, a hope and even sometimes a success. The bone sinking, shadow self initiating alone questioning and oh so chirpily chorused enchanted incanted answered response(s) is / are hopefully not yours? I will do a long awaited never anticipated welcome home now to a new ‘alone’ thought not easily shared with others, unless...

With a sound recording from the other Loch shore the never seen before in the title could be added to with, “and a never heard before soundtrack.” Sometimes digital files like their analogue predecessors get overlooked in all too busy lifestyles and when you looking through your own stoory drawers you never know if you are finding the right files to be sharing. The ruined, yet still tall and impressive Tower House of Urquhart Castle is a pearl of keep on string Curtain Wall that hosted other towers and a larger entertaining facility of the Great Hall. The ruins are superb gem stones preserved as they are showing us the former high need for tall castle walls and the current protection for historic conservation rather than fortification ready for both siege and domination.

Urquhart Castle stands a ruins still tall and proud attracting tourists to see and to dream of the history and mystery that they find both in and around this place. The stones hold on to the memories that are created in their situation and the reliving of so much Scottish history here brings about great sharing and caring for the past in and on through the struggles and the successes. Like a Loch Edge Loom this site catches the breezes and only lets them loose after they have left a little of their voice here. Even the rising mists give their impressions from out of the earth upon their way to the heavens above. Somehow this attraction is able to weave the sounds of winds and the magic moments of mists creating long lived legends into historic themed treasured tapestries that illuminate the progress of the tourists, the routes chosen by the pilgrims and the seeking minds of all of the visitors.

© PHH Sykes 2024

phhsykes@gmail.com

Urquhart Castle by Drumnadrochit, near Inverness, IV63 6XJ

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/urquhart-castle/overview/

Urquhart Castle

https://canmore.org.uk/site/12547/urquhart-castle

Urquhart Castle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urquhart_Castle

Sometimes the night blossoms and blooms forth in the day burgeoning in d...

Sometimes the night blossoms

and blooms forth in the day

burgeoning in dark ripe buds and berries

never to be found in May

always out in September

all trace gone by March fulfilling November

I to the hills

King James Bible

I Will Lift Up My Eyes to the Hills

1 {A Song of degrees.} I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

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“The Boleskine House Foundation, a registered Scottish charity.”

https://boleskinehouse.org/

Boleskine, Old Boleskine Church, Burial Ground, Canmore

https://canmore.org.uk/site/100574/boleskine-old-boleskine-church-burial-ground

The Boleskine Burial Ground

https://southlochnessheritage.co.uk/boleskine-burial-ground/

Inky Black Night sound and vision Five Locks of the Caledonian Canal at ...

Inky Black Night sound and vision Five Locks of the Caledonian Canal at Fort Augustus leading from Loch Ness to Loch Oich

Water held in a man-made marvel of a magnificent embrace is never still, the flow of force continues all along the water course, no matter how much we hold we also need to allow the wonders to work their way through the paths that we direct them to and in this technology of traversing the land we make the current of water our float to balance upon bringing trade and commerce and now tourists and photo takers to enjoy the waters held and flowing always alluring and glowing.

Image stabilisation and video edited satbilisation* are not enough to quite the unwanted jiggles and jerks leading to over under works of hopefully charming quirks.

*satbilisation technology® is image stabilisation as if the camera operator was sat comfortably in a happy mood enjoying the scene and convey the at ease feel with warm glow sentiment to the viewer. The emerging satbilisation technology® does not even have uppercase letters as capitals would be too rise and fall, stand to attention and take sharp notice.

Standbilisation Technology® has stand up from the lowercase and be counted as uppercase place markers as it is all about being on top of the message and all over the theme with with magnify lens and a deer-at-heart-of-hart none stalk -er / -ing hat.

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Fort Augustus
A vibrant village where the end of Loch Ness flows into the Caledonian Canal
https://www.visitinvernesslochness.com/fort-augustus

Caledonian Canal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonian_Canal

Hḗlios ánthos calling out to be in mind ever amongst us displaying Sun a...

Hḗlios ánthos calling out to be in mind ever amongst us displaying Sun answering and offering much fond remembering

See flowers and find the Sun ripening and burgeoning on Earth. Watch the colours of life live with the Bees stretching out the ground reaching out towards the trees. None of our perceptions are why the Sunflower has become so popular. The flower in nature found a place to thrive and after all of the natural struggle, happenstance and success we have the perception of the flower talking to us and we might be the ones to give a place all around the world bringing out millions of new connections all brightly, prominently and beautifully unfurled.

The heart shape is just how the plant looked that day. I am just to one side of the flower and today in 2024 I cut the picture with straight line and then reflected the cut image. I took these pictures in 2023 and edited and released some then. I do look for picture opportunities where I can reflect an image.

Guess who has been watching Vincent Van Gogh and some of the Sunflower legacy that is painted in, written down and reverberantly freshly vibrantly felt around the world in the history and mystery of known and unknown of documented in letters and illustrated in art of his and of those that inspired him and then of those that he inspired?

© PHH Sykes 2024

phhsykes@gmail.com

Soundtrack through Cyberlink derived from,

Taira Komori – Night Wind 1 and 2

https://taira-komori.jpn.org/nature01en.html

Maybe, too much Everything found in silence and sound somehow with a how...

Maybe, too much? Everything found in silence and sound somehow with a howl out to the ones that growl...

Maybe, no not maybe rather too much of everything found in silence and in sound altogether not different rather in allied divisions of the infinite each one a part of THE ONE, every fulfilling all and so generating THE ALL.

At the entrance to Brochs there are small corbelled dens that some see as dog houses with them positioned so that the pack is poised ready to either blockade with their furious sea of swirling strength, or to welcome you through with their frantic show of faith. Dogs are marvellous. We are not always good enough for them.

On Orkney there are places that have been found with animal signatures. Presumed as totem items to bring an identify to the people in kit, kith and clan. There is famously The Tomb of the Eagles and then there is The Tomb of the Hounds, or as many say The Tomb of the Dogs which is neither as find rich nor as recent so less detailed than The Tomb of the Eagles. Then there is your individual discernment, even discrimination. The Hound faithful and helpful is often not seen as high on the animal scale of some perceived divine dignitary of animals where almost in a scoring game people hone their perceptions on the height, length and purpose in flight, upon the ground and within waters. Shamanistic ideals of purpose and best use might be wrapped tighter in smaller, shorter and more acclimatised and best designed ideals. For me The Tomb of the Dogs has always held me in very fond canine fascination.

“The skulls of 24 dogs on the chamber floor.”

Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn - History

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/cuween-hill-chambered-cairn/history/

I find revelation and regeneration in historic places. They are a fight for me to reach and an utter tremendous moment to be in washed with history, robed in mystery and released from the painful pressing concerns. The journeys, the quests and the healing pathways never end in the ancient places. The people that sited the ancient places had open space to fit their framework into place. The memories of such places are to me fantastic visions. As I type the Moon shines in Cuween and I am howling...

I have been to Cuween before and it has had me in awe since I heard about The Tomb of the Dogs, visited the chambered cairn and revisited The Tomb of the Hounds. I was happy sat in the burial area thinking and not thinking, in and out of the moment with nothing and everything all together with each other and at once, at one and at none. I had been so ill and now the world could stop and carry on and every part was sung in a song of fantastic fates and wondrous wyrd, of cunning craft and of great working, of time given, enjoyed and never forgotten, all of everything spoken held in human token of a pattern of life left open...

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phhsykes@gmail.com

Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/cuween-hill-chambered-cairn/

Cuween Hill

https://canmore.org.uk/site/2059/cuween-hill

“...one of 24 dog skulls found in a Neolithic passage tomb – the so-called 'tomb of the dogs' – at Cuween Hill in Orkney.”

“This is the only dog skull to have made it into a museum; the others are believed to be lost.”

https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/scottish-history-and-archaeology/neolithic-dog-skull/

4K YouTube version

https://youtu.be/v_aEwny3100?si=YbncywNF_XXzC4Vw

The Hat, these pictures exist to show a thank you for the hat 4K v2.0

Thank you Craig for the hat.
The hat is very often the best part of me. It does a great job at keeping my head working with a touch of warmth and also by great good fortune offering a brim to frame up the world around me and to protect any camera. It is a universal excellent piece of kit against light being too strong at the rear of the camera and would provide limited snow and rain cover if I was that hardy to be in adverse weather. As it is I too battered, broken and bruised to be out in all weathers and so a hat works well for me during my limited image creations.

Is it even any sort of, “thank you,” if it is not a Blogger Thank You?

Of course it is, any thank you is always in all ways a thank you.

© PHH Sykes 2024

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