One path closed and a new way begun for footfall with shoes and paws with claws and hoofs for deer and badger for humans and their dogs a way being marked in new outstretching arc. The tree in dying brings life to crumbling trunks and vanishing branches as the woodland extends and contracts breathing freely in the long sumptuous lichen that certificates the bark as reaching through fine fresh fecund air. One way is never just a different way to the same places as before, each way is a new line drawn and a fresh etched path that lasts and fails just as the fertile woodland creates as each sprouting and routing generates the ways we take and the ways we make.

The path seems less pursued now the tree fall has created an an obstacle. This woodland is in Rosslyn Glen below Roslin Village. A walk in nature and in beautifully untended once formal gardens near both Rosslyn Chapel and Castle.

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The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott
Canto Sixth.

O'er Roslin all that dreary night
A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam;
'Twas broader than the watch-fire's light,
And redder than the bright moonbeam.

It glar'd on Roslin's castled rock,
It ruddied all the copse wood glen;
'Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak
And seen from cavern'd Hawthorn-den.

Seem'd all on fire that chapel proud,
Where Roslin's chiefs uncoffin'd lie,
Each Baron, for a sable shroud,
Sheath'd in his iron panoply.

Seem'd all on fire within, around,
Deep sacristy and altar s pale;
Shone every plllar foliage bound,
And glimmer'd all the dead men's mail.

Blaz'd battlement and pinnet high,
Blaz'd every rose-carved buttress fair--
So still they blaze when fate is nigh
The lordly line of high St. Clair.

There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold
Lie buried within that proud chapelle;
Each one the holy vault doth hold--
But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle!

And each St. Clair was buried there,
With candle, with book, and with knell;
But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung
The dirge of lovely Rosabelle.

www.theotherpages.org/poems/minstrel.html

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

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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.

© PHH Sykes 2024 and 2025
phhsykes@gmail.com


RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve
www.rspb.org.uk/days-out/reserves/loch-leven

Tags:   Royal Society for the Protection of Birds RSPB Scotland Loch Leven RSPB Perth Kinross Sony Alpha 7C A7C ILCE-7C ILCE7B SEL20F18G FE 20mm F1.8 G lens

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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.

© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com


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

Carn Liath Canmore
canmore.org.uk/site/6546/carn-liath

Dunrobin Castle & Gardens
JEWEL IN THE CROWN OF THE HIGHLANDS
www.dunrobincastle.co.uk/

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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.

© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com


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

Carn Liath Canmore
canmore.org.uk/site/6546/carn-liath

Dunrobin Castle & Gardens
JEWEL IN THE CROWN OF THE HIGHLANDS
www.dunrobincastle.co.uk/

Tags:   Carn Liath Broch Dunrobin Castle Sony Alpha 7C A7C ILCE-7C ILCE7B SEL20F18G FE 20mm F1.8 G lens

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