In here there’s a rhythmic almost heart beating door A secret sauce to i...

In here there’s a rhythmic almost heart beating door A secret sauce to improve the light source RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve

A Secret Source to improve the Light Source.

The camera settings record a brighter scene than that which is seen by the human eye and I can be heard saying the above, “A Secret Source to improve the Light Source,” at the end of the film. Pixel power searches into the dark to treasure receive the waiting wonders so as to best record them for later and for further enjoyment. Almost nothing to see here and what is to be seen is scene generated by A Secret Source to improve the Light Source with a wider eye to take in what is flying by and an electronic ear saving the wings on air and on water with hidden honk and silhouetted cry and a more sensitive sensor for experiencing the loch the shore listening in without reply and everything and all together under the intense colours of the sky.

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 bad filming here is intentional for this to be a true record of the experience that still stirs me as I look back on it like a slice of repeatable immersive Electro Shamanism.

The end of the day is a fabulous break down. Everything of light that has been completed and the gentle encroach of night offers some respite before the glorious wonders woken before dawn all start again into the more active hours of the day. Please be gentle on my classification of, “repeatable immersive Electro Shamanism,” that is what I am experiencing on looking back into the fantastic after glow and fabulous sound garden of twilight. This is after sunset at RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve.

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RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve

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

Carn Liath Broch Near Golspie Sutherland Murmuring and Mutterings upon a...

Carn Liath Broch Near Golspie Sutherland Murmuring and Mutterings upon an entrance and life well defended and shared

There is a cloud with an unbelievable luminescence, you may wish to watch the proceedings witch include the progress in and up the Broch all the way to view the both amazing and as stated unbelievable cloud. This is an awe inspiring place, passed by many on the busy A9 and also enjoyed by lots too as these time worn stones are in a prime location now from the busy highway for the motor vehicle traveller and always upon the sea routes for raiding and trading, for living and loving within this once vibrant community firmly established here. Visible from the structure is the bay that most likely caused the Broch to be built and just a little further along from some centuries later there is the still imposing Dunrobin Castle & Gardens in view just to the South weaving a fantasy air bourne drifting notions of lineage from Brochs to Castles via shared safe dwellings to Clan Centres of influence and strategic importance throughout a much changing history shaped out potential history.

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Carn Liath Broch Near Golspie Sutherland Historic Environment Scotland https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/carn-liath-broch/

Carn Liath Canmore

https://canmore.org.uk/site/6546/carn-liath

Dunrobin Castle & Gardens

JEWEL IN THE CROWN OF THE HIGHLANDS

https://www.dunrobincastle.co.uk/

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

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.

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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

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?

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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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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

180 Degrees around from the original atmospheric occurrence 4K

The skies were amazing. I stopped to take a picture and my perception was drawn 180 Degrees around from the original atmospheric occurrence to take pictures as you see them now. The original colour versions were loaded to Flickr yesterday and today the toned versions were added to a sound track recorded just out of shot from the road as seen in the photographs.

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Pentland Hills, Regional Park

https://www.pentlandhills.org/

PHH Sykes – my pictures on Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/phhsykes/

Mind stretch at Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn 4K

Within the newly roofed original stone confine

was a way marked out to encounter the divine.

Step by step I moved in closer to the moment

My heart beat in my ears was a rhythmic stream

There could have been an ordeal a wyrd torment

Instead there was in and out all through a dream

In the tomb there finding a womb that had the room

For every connection ever made, even almost made

The impossible mind garden began to beautifully bloom

There was a familiar new inspiring soundtrack being played

The end and the beginning of days was unreleased through haze

Heart beats were slow as an hour so that so much could bloom and flower

In a million, million enlightening encounters were the openings of so many, many ways

The fuel to reach out and to embrace, to know and to continue was a gift of

the ever divine power

I was lost in dim darkness and I was rewarded with the return to the day light.

Somehow, somewhere in darkness there was a blinding glimpse of second sight.

Return to Re-burn as Re-torn and Reborn

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Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Return to the Light at the right height w...

Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Return to the Light at the right height with new made sight a gift from the Wight

I was lost in dim darkness and I was rewarded with the return to the day light.

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Temple Arch the last above ground Templar Remnant just outside Edinburgh...

The village of Temple in Midlothian is where the Knights Templar held their primary and principal Preceptory in Scotland. There are some trees that might follow along lines of previous structures. There is a patch of rough ground that may one day be archaeologically be further investigated generating more detail about this site. For now there is a ruined kirk managed by TEMPLE OLD KIRK FRIENDS, please see the link below. The kirk is well worth a view, but it is not old enough to be a Templar building, there could be a reuse of stone still holding information held right now within the present structure. The stone archway pictured here is quickly photographed as I chatted of knights, of bold deeds, of traditions of yore and of the way forward we can create to reach out and to become legendary for peace making and social caring as we all make one world a safer, better and happier a place to be.

The pictures start with the arch that stands even though it is heavily worn by time. We progress away from the archway and look briefly at the significant trees standing with the stones over centuries. There are pictures that show a tree that is slowly breaking back down into the ground. There are pictures of the nearby old school that stands close to the arch. Any structure close by might have opened up and then sealed in some historic evidence. The evidence focussed upon today can be microscopic soil structure and also hue. The ground holds secrets here and one day further archaeological excavation might open up new details. Til then we have the archway behind the old school and our imagination.

From this spot you can look out to the ports of Edinburgh, to the Firth of Forth and across to Fife. This place stands secure once within it’s own sovereignty. The inspirational stories of old seem to have a fine place here to reside.

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TEMPLE OLD KIRK FRIENDS

https://churchmonumentssociety.org/2021/12/14/temple-old-kirk-friends

Not a knot at the joint when reflected at St Abbs and not a Temple of S...

Not a knot at the joint when reflected at St. Abbs and not a Temple of Sabazios

With a touch of editing here is a Gordian Knot with a join not knots between the images. Alexander the Great when either presented, or confronted a challenge he was often able to approach with directed focus that brought him success against all odds. When shown the knot of King Gordias that was said waited to be undone by the next ruler of Asia Alexander is said to have looked at the problem which might have been a knot of shrunken and matted fibres and decided not to let the impossible stand in his way to conquering Asia and either cut the knot, or removed a lynch pin. His approach is given different emphasis through the retelling with some telling of his impetuous and head strong charge to a quick victory with no limitations from rules and expectation, or he could be seen as successfully assessing the problem and correctly realising the answer had nothing to do with knot work, but rather creating a situation in which the knot no longer worked.

The unfathomable knot had been dedicated to the Phrygian God Sabazios. Alexander and his fellow Greeks recognised aspects of Sabazios that for them connected him to their God Zeus. Zeus was the all father and chief of the Greek Gods on Mount Olympus. In resolving the Gordian Knot that had been held sacred and guarded by the Priest of Sabazios, Alexander who became known as, “The Great,” showed that he would let nothing stand in his way, that he was determined to defeat any problem and to be victorious winning and so bringing the blessings of Priests and Gods with him on his vast military campaign. Other interpretations are made of this recorded incident and the Gordian Knot is a legendary feat that is taken as evidence of many different problems and solutions leading to the retelling being set to reveal almost whatever each tale teller wants you to see in their version of the story. Here my Gordian Knot has been the joining of the ropes in Photoshop to present loops at the harbour where the sea never stills and rather it rolls around in seasonal tides and so readily presents whatever aspect of the sea you wish to see.

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