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Tuesday, 25 February 2025

Nothing less than dim spectacle to spectate upon here With a large winge...


Nothing less than dim spectacle

to spectate upon here.

With a large winged flight

of fancy at the end...


It might be too late for many and far too early for some. The quiet bird noises have been left quiet and distant. The window movement is mentioned before the sound of the movement, not at all dissimilar to an indicated Musical Movement and stop there on movement comparisons please. The whole experience is the whole experience, with wonky horizons and shaky movements. I am now an ambassador of the wonky as I am at the permanent potential to go to the wonk and to glory in the results as age and injury grip me tighter and longer than loved ones ever have.

The end of the day is fabulous break down. Everything of light has been completed and the night offers some respite before the glorious wonders all start again. This is after sunset at RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve.

© PHH Sykes 2024 and 2025
phhsykes@gmail.com


RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve

https://www.rspb.org.uk/days-out/reserves/loch-leven



Friday, 21 February 2025

Abercorn Museum next to Abercorn Church

Saint Columba is also known as Saint Colmcille of Iona.


Saint Ninian is also known as the Apostle to the Southern Picts, further he is also known as Ringan in Scotland and as Trynnian in Northern England.


Abercorn Church and the site of a noted Anglian Monastery are recorded in the small stone museum. The building is made of stone and it houses stone. Records left in stone speak through symbols and style across history to inform our minds.


In looking for further information I did find this,
COLUMBA AND NINIAN: TWO SCOTTISH SAINTS

Thesis : St. Columba is commemorated for having a greater influence on the spread of Christianity in Scotland than St. Ninian because Columba died better than Ninian.

Cindy Turner, 1758 Prof. Brad Doerksen HIST 237 A 26 November 2012

https://www.academia.edu/25553476/COLUMBA_AND_NINIAN_TWO_SCOTTISH_SAINTS


Do scroll to find the above link, if you wish and feel sure that it is available through other sites with the information above to guide you.

© PHH Sykes 2024


Outlander locations - Abercorn Church and Cemetery / Graveyard

“Filming for season 4 took place at this churchyard in Linlithgow. The graveyard played the part, in ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’, of Frank’s final resting place after his fatal car crash. We see Bree visiting Frank’s grave shortly after his death.”

“Abercorn Church and Graveyard is one of several Outlander locations in the surrounding locality. Barely a mile south is Midhope Castle (Lallybroch), and the much used Hopetoun House is an equal distance to the east. Blackness Castle, used as Fort William in season 1, is also nearby, less than 5 miles away.”

http://www.outlanderlocations.com/locations/abercorn-church/


Abercorn Church And Anglian Monastery

https://canmore.org.uk/site/49123/abercorn-church-and-anglian-monastery


Abercorn Kirk

https://www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/abercorn-kirk/


Abercorn Church, carved stones in Session House SM7545

https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::::VIEWTYPE,VIEWREF:designation,SM7545


Church and church museum, Abercorn, West Lothian

https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=11831


Hog's Back Viking Graves

PDF Download – short and illustrated

NOTICE OF UNPRESCRIBED HOG-BACKED MONUMENTS AT ABERCORN

AND KIRK NEWTON.

BY THOS. ROSS, F.S.A. SCOT

http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/psas/article/download/6982/6951



Saturday, 30 March 2024

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



Friday, 22 March 2024

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.


© PHH Sykes 2023

phhsykes@gmail.com


“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/


Saturday, 16 March 2024

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.

© PHH Sykes 2023

phhsykes@gmail.com


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



Sunday, 18 February 2024

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

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...

© PHH Sykes 2024


Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn


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.”



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Friday, 24 November 2023

Highland Light the magical gift of the temperate climate of Scotland and...


Highland Light the magical gift of the temperate climate
of Scotland and mountain scenery

The light the Light the LIGHT.
In property they say location, location, location.
In photography location can bring light and atmospheric conditions.
Once there at either the chosen location, or directed, or even the happenstance found location I would suggest that the magical quality that releases the subject and scene is the light the Light the LIGHT.

Subject – Sunject
Scene – Sunce
Except at night when
Subject – Moonject
Scene – Moonce
and also
Subject – Stellaject
and not forgetting found light
Subject – Founject
Scene – Stellence
Artificial light,
Subject – Lighject
Scene – Liunce
Scene – Founce*

Pease ignore the above at whichever level you wish to disagree with it. Please enjoy the above at all levels and sections if you can. Please to find of use and of no use as best suits you.

*This is not an extensive list of light the Light the LIGHT the maker of happy photographic subjects and scenes.

© PHH Sykes 2023