Sculptures, statues and just for fun
Watching the Birdie
North Berwick
The Ancient Mariner
Statue of the Ancient Mariner which stands on Watchet Marina Somerset. (From the poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
"Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung."
Best enlarged
Chain Gang
Cairngorm Mountains. This is where the funicular railway departs from. I have chosen a couple of links here. The first is Sam Cooke and 'Chain Gang' because of this 'gang' of chain sculptures.
View large for detail
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBn5aIfZElE
Second is Aretha Franklin and 'Chain of Fools'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGAiW5dOnKo
Stories in Pictures (PiPs)
Watchet - Mural
The mural, painted on Watchet sea defence wall is by local artist Pat Dennis
The link is Shirley Bassey singing 'if a Picture Paints a Thousand Words'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya-xsNpPp4U
On The Wings Of Love.
Linda McCartney statue in the Lady Linda McCartney Memorial Garden, Campbeltown, Kintyre. Sculpture by Sir Paul McCartney's cousin's daughter, Jane Robbins.
I have added the link 'My Love' by Paul McCartney and Wings, - wriiten by Paul for Linda
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7X8jjEOOhE
Xyloglyphy (PiPs)
Pictured in the Spa gardens at Strathpeffer these are some of the 4 tonne, 4 metre high wood sculptures by Allister Brebner, and represent legends from Celtic, Viking and Pictish culture.
The carvings are from Douglas Firs.
I have added the song 'Woodcarver' by Johhny Cash and Sandy Kelly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjJ-K7emTa4&list=RDtjJ-K7emTa4
20 Jun 2017
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The Boat House - HFF
This boat house beach hut selling mostly ice-cream was spotted on Calgary Beach, Isle of Mull. It has an upturned boat for a roof and boat shaped bench outside.
The link is Tom Waits and "Ice Cream Man"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHGG3vj5kcQ
Silver Stallion
One of the Kelpies pictured under a dark sky.
I have added the link 'Silver Stallion' by the Highwaymen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU4caMqKssg
Watching and Waiting
The Green Man at North Berwick, endlessly looking out to sea, and Bass Rock on the horizon. I have added the link - 'Watching and Waiting' by the Moody Blues
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2i6Fi21Vqo
Better viewed large.
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