Showing posts with label Orkney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orkney. Show all posts
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Wistful about Orkney Diving

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I'm missing Scotland and wishing that I'd been in good enough shape to dive the Scapa Flow in Orkney last summer.  I was there, but ...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Orkney and Stone

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At the Ring of Brodgar, Orkney.
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Kirkwall Ruins

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Sunday, July 9, 2017

Orkney Time

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Two of the Stones of Stenness.
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Viking Remnants

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Thorfinn was here. The Brough of Birsay, Orkney.
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Profile Pics: 5 + 6

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Stromness Shots

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That's a two-way street, by the way. Motorists are very accommodating of each other in Orkney in particular ...

Orkney Kine

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Orkney kine are not the hairy, furry Scottish cattle that one expects.  They are multicolored, or of various colors, not the ruddy shade you...
Monday, July 3, 2017

Orkney Vistas

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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Scottish Folk Music!

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My commuting music: highly recommended. Warning: You gotta love the fiddle.
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Kelpy

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Highland Park is a rather kelpy whisky. Distilled in the Orkney Islands--a place I long to visit--so the kelpiness makes sense.
Sunday, January 5, 2014

GMB: "I Gave It Back To The Sea, To Dance In"

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BEACHCOMBER Monday I found a boot – Rust and salt leather. I gave it back to the sea, to dance in. Tuesday a spar of timber worth thi...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

The Thinker(s): Orkney-Style?

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My  Pict (pit-fired clay; hammered copper) -- with someone else's Thor  in the background. I must say that my own sense of ...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

"The Music of the Seals"

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The seals are very fond of music.  Everywhere I went people told me that, but I was never fortunate enough to hear first hand the music...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

Dunnett's Macbeth: Thorfinn of Orkney -- A Favorite Passage

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Here's a favorite passage from Dorothy Dunnett's King Hereafter, a novel about the historical Macbeth: Thorfinn the Mighty, Earl of ...