Staffin Island and Beach - Isle of Skye
Due South by the A68, Soutra Hill, Scottish Boarde…
Snow covered West Lomond on a bright spring mornin…
Hosta
Hosta
Hosta
Bonsai Rhododendron
Spring flowers
Epidendrum parkinsonianum
Epidendrum parkinsonianum
Cymbidium lowianum
Coelogyne pulverula
Vanda tricolor var. suarvis
Prothechea cochleata
Pleione 'Tongariro'
Cymbidium erythraeum 'Paradise'
Oncidium 'Cayenne'
Banfeldara 'Mystic Maze'
Miltonia 'Sunset'
Orchid display
Ornithidium coccineum
Brasiliorchis ubatubana
Brassia rex
Pterostylis 'Nodding Grace'
Masdevallia Charisma 'John'
Sarcochilus 'Burgundy on Ice'
Dendrobium unicum
Masdevallia ignea and others in a Wardian case
Epidendrum nanegalense
Dendrobium delicatum
Dendrobium delicatum
Dendrobium mohlianum
Poroglossum meridionale
Departure under a moody sky
The Leaderfoot Viaduct, Melrose, Scottish Boarders
Reflection on the road traveled.....
All Saints in the Spring - Helsmley, North Yorkshi…
Flowers for the Fallen - Helmsley, North Yorkshire
All Saints Church tower - Helmsley, North Yorkshir…
End of the walkway..... (HFF everyone)
Late summer country walk
Dark waters run deep.....
Tranquility....
HFF from Scarborough everyone - North Yorkshire
Scarborough Castle across North Bay - North Yorksh…
Dividing Line (HFF everyone)
Winter through the hedgerow
Treetops over the blowing snow
'Sunset' panel
'Sunset' panel
'Sunset' panel
Jazz vase pattern
Sunset
Sunrise
Brightest London
Rhapsody In Blue
Honeysuckle Rose - Fox-trot
Dark Waters of the Derwent
Cold Easterly Winds Continuing....
What Has Been Will Never Be Again
Orford Castle
The way home - (HFF everyone)
Where's our car?
A flurry of icing sugar around my Corsican Pine
Snowy back garden
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Staffin (Scottish Gaelic: Stafain) is a district with the Gaelic name An Taobh Sear, which translates as 'the East Side', on the northeast coast of the Trotternish peninsula of the island of Skye. It is located on the A855 road about 17 miles (27 km) north of Portree and is overlooked by the Trotternish Ridge with the famous rock formations of The Storrand the Quirang. The district comprises 23 townships made up of, from south to north, Rigg, Tote, Lealt, Lonfearn, Grealin, Breackry, Cul-nan-cnoc, Bhaltos, Raiseburgh, Ellishader, Garafad, Clachan, Garros, Marrishader, Maligar, Stenscholl, Brogaig, Sartle, Glasphein, Digg, Dunan, Flodigarry and Greap.
The Kilmartin River runs northwards through the village. From where it reaches the sea a rocky shore leads east to a slipway at An Corran. Here a local resident found a slab bearing a dinosaur track, probably made by a small ornithopod. Experts subsequently found more dinosaur prints of up to 50 cm, the largest found in Scotland, made by a creature similar to Megalosaurus. At about 160 million years old they are the youngest dinosaur remains to be found in Scotland.
A Mesolithic hunter-gatherer site dating to the 7th millennium BC at An Corran is one of the oldest archaeological sites in Scotland. Its occupation is probably linked to that of the rock shelter at Sand, Applecross on the coast of Wester Ross.
In the modern era this part of Skye retains a strong Gaelic identity with 61 per cent of the local population recorded as speaking the language in 2001. In September 2010,Comunn na Gàidhlig named Staffin as their "Gaelic Community of the Year", in the first year this competition has run.
In 2011 it was reported that Staffin Island may be the last in Scotland where the old tradition of having cattle swim between grazings is still carried out. Crofter Iain MacDonald, who used to swim with the animals, now uses a boat to encourage them to swim from Staffin Island to Skye in early spring and back again in October.
Staffin (Scottish Gaelic: Stafain) is a district with the Gaelic name An Taobh Sear, which translates as 'the East Side', on the northeast coast of the Trotternish peninsula of the island of Skye. It is located on the A855 road about 17 miles (27 km) north of Portree and is overlooked by the Trotternish Ridge with the famous rock formations of The Storrand the Quirang. The district comprises 23 townships made up of, from south to north, Rigg, Tote, Lealt, Lonfearn, Grealin, Breackry, Cul-nan-cnoc, Bhaltos, Raiseburgh, Ellishader, Garafad, Clachan, Garros, Marrishader, Maligar, Stenscholl, Brogaig, Sartle, Glasphein, Digg, Dunan, Flodigarry and Greap.
The Kilmartin River runs northwards through the village. From where it reaches the sea a rocky shore leads east to a slipway at An Corran. Here a local resident found a slab bearing a dinosaur track, probably made by a small ornithopod. Experts subsequently found more dinosaur prints of up to 50 cm, the largest found in Scotland, made by a creature similar to Megalosaurus. At about 160 million years old they are the youngest dinosaur remains to be found in Scotland.
A Mesolithic hunter-gatherer site dating to the 7th millennium BC at An Corran is one of the oldest archaeological sites in Scotland. Its occupation is probably linked to that of the rock shelter at Sand, Applecross on the coast of Wester Ross.
In the modern era this part of Skye retains a strong Gaelic identity with 61 per cent of the local population recorded as speaking the language in 2001. In September 2010,Comunn na Gàidhlig named Staffin as their "Gaelic Community of the Year", in the first year this competition has run.
In 2011 it was reported that Staffin Island may be the last in Scotland where the old tradition of having cattle swim between grazings is still carried out. Crofter Iain MacDonald, who used to swim with the animals, now uses a boat to encourage them to swim from Staffin Island to Skye in early spring and back again in October.
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