Tag Archives: Scotland

Diarmuid and Grainne: a boar hunt and a tragic love story in Glen Lonan ~ Jo Woolf

Posted on November 23, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from The Hazel Tree: The frost was still crisp on the grass when we ventured across the field in Glen Lonan in search of the Strontoiller stone circle. It was one of those blissful autumn mornings, so perfect … Continue reading →

Posted in reblog | Tagged Argyll, Diarmaid, Diarmaid's grave, Diarmuid and Grainne, feature slider, Fenian cycle, Fionn and the Fianna, Glen Lonan, Irish legend, Irish Mythology, legends, Scotland, Scottish history, standing stones, stone circle | Leave a comment

Guest author: Roberta Eaton Cheadle ~ An adventure in the Edinburgh vaults

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Sue Vincent

The South Bridge Vaults in Edinburgh, are hidden beneath one of the city’s busiest street, and can be accessed by the public through guided tours of a few of its subterranean chambers. The vaults comprise of a series of approximately … Continue reading →

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A walk to Rí Cruin Cairn ~ Jo Woolf

Posted on October 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged fromThe Hazel Tree: It doesn’t seem like six weeks ago that we walked down the grassy lane to Rí Cruin, the most southerly chambered cairn in Kilmartin Glen’s remarkable ‘linear cemetery’. The roadside verges were high with the … Continue reading →

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Brooding Splendour: A Journey Through Mull and Iona ~ Jan Malique

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from Strange Goings-On in the Shed: It comes to pass that the Traveller sails to distant islands, shrouded in mist and foreboding. Sky and Sea infuse the senses with deep melancholy. The Guardians of the land stand remote, silent … Continue reading →

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Loch Nell: the Tomb of the Giants and a Serpent Mound ~ Jo Woolf

Posted on July 27, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from The Hazel Tree: “And now we were in the very midst of a land of legends.” R Angus Smith, Loch Etive and the Sons of Uisnach (1879) Early on a Sunday morning in July, with a shimmering haze … Continue reading →

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Three Days of the Oyster-Catcher (Part 6) Beyond the Blasted Heath ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Sue Vincent

And then the worlds around us literally fell away… We were all tired; it had been a wonderful day, and the weather had been kind – which is not always assured in Scotland… The brain tends to switch off, which … Continue reading →

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Three days of the Oyster-catcher (Part 5) – Stone in the Sky ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

A Pictish stone so large, it needs its own ‘hangar’. You can’t miss Sueno’s stone. It sits on its own plateau, just off the old main road between Findhorn and Forres; now bypassed. You see its ‘hangar’ first, then realise … Continue reading →

Posted in The Silent Eye | Tagged Burghead Headland, Burghead Well, Findhorn, Forres, Grantown-on-Spey, Holy Wells, Pentagram, Phi, pictish, Pictish stones, Picts, River Spey, Scotland, Shadwick Stone, Strathallan | Leave a comment

Three days of the Oyster-catcher (Part 4) – Sea and Stone ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on June 29, 2019 by Sue Vincent

I didn’t want to leave Burghead, not even for Findhorn; a place I’d wanted to visit for a long time. Burghead had filled me (many of us, I think) with a sense of ancient mystery and that dreadful knowledge that … Continue reading →

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Three days of the Oyster-catcher (Part 3) – A Pictish Headland ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Sue Vincent

The Moray Firth is vast, wild and beautiful. Examined on a map it resembles a child’s geometry exercise in triangles, with the coast between its ‘origin’ at Inverness and far-away Fraserburgh being a virtually flat west-east baseline. From Fraserburgh the … Continue reading →

Posted in The Silent Eye | Tagged Burghead Headland, Burghead Well, Grantown-on-Spey, Holy Wells, Pentagram, Phi, Pictish stones, Picts, River Spey, Scotland, Strathallan | 2 Comments

Three Days of the Oyster-Catcher (2) Coast and Castle~ Steve Tanham

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Sun in Gemini Above: Looking down into the Spey valley below – the 7:00 am beginning of our workshop Saturday There has to be a dawn… I’m not being flippant. Our Silent Eye ‘spirituality in the landscape’ weekends always have … Continue reading →