#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime Old High Church Inverness. See ALT for more info.

Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs Snow in Summer - The Cure Photo taken today, 16 May 2026 Cairngorm Mountain range from near Aviemore, Scotland. Photo is a panoramic view - click to view the entire picture.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs Like a Hurricane - Neil Young (+ALT)

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs Walk through the World - Marc Cohn (A bit obscure, unless you know the lyrics to this one)

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs Three Coins in the Fountain - Frank Sinatra

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs Bridge over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs The Windmills of Your Mind - Dusty Springfield

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs Northern Sky by Nick Drake

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs The Lovecats by The Cure

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs Downtown Train - Rod Stewart / Tom Waits

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections Sunlight reflecting from a stream onto the underside of an 18th Century bridge on a General Wade bridge. (whole bridge shown to give context)

#FingerpostFriday A Millenium Cycle Route sign on National Cycle Route 7 and Lochs & Glens Way at the Slochd in the Cairngorm National Park.

#FingerpostFriday A post on the Spey Valley Championship course in Aviemore, Cairngorms National Park. The course has the longest hole in Scotland, at 635 yards. I don’t play golf. 😂😂 But the course has some fantastic mountain views that don’t have Fingerposts…

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections Lochside reflections. Loch Alvie; Loch Alvie again; Loch Mallachie, Garten and finally Loch Insh. All in the Cairngorm National Park.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections Sandbanks, Ontario

Why #standingcharges for #electricity are so wrong.

#FingerpostFriday Very faded woodwork from Strathaven, South Lanarkshire

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens Full size Queens Long Service medals, miniatures and ribbons.

#ThickTrunkThursday Caledonian (Scots) Pine, Kinrara Estate, Cairngorms National Park

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens The Tanera Queen, a small ferry that travels between the island Tanera More and the Scottish mainland north of Ullapool. Formerly known as the Chanonry Queen running between Cromarty and Nigg.

First cuckoo I’ve heard this year, deep in the Scottish Highlands. Cairngorms National Park. (don’t look for the cuckoo in these pics. Though it’s somewhere near)

#FingerpostFriday Gawthrop, having just come through Barbondale.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple Serbian Bellflowers

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple Flowers in Alcudia, Mallorca

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple Fritillaria meleagris

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple Two bands seen playing in Inverness, Tidelines and Trail West.

#FingerpostFriday Footpath / cycle route in the Cairngorms National Park. Trees were cut down and floated down river to shipyards on the coast and this route follows a river that was used.

My idea of heaven. Apparently it’s food for grandads…just your average IKEA lunch #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld Some “Granny” pines in the remnant Caledonia pine forest in the Cairngorms are 400 - 500 years old.

#ForestFriday Tracks through pine and birch woods of Docharn and Deshar, Cairngorms National Park

#FingerpostFriday Part of the NCN Route 7 off road route between Boat of Garten and Carr Bridge

Oil prices have dropped. Let’s see how long it takes for petroleum/ diesel to come down at the forecourt. 🤷‍♂️

#FingerpostFriday Bilingual finger posts today, Gaelic and English, plus some Caledonian pines.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMovies Film - Apollo 13. My signed copy of Gene Kranz’s book Failure is Not an Option. Gene Kranz was the NASA Flight Director for Apollo missions 11 & 13. Gene gave me his book when I met him in the Mission Control Centre in Houston Texas where I also watched the film.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers A layered piece of sandstone rock

#FingerpostFriday On a bike ride near Boat of Garten in the Cairngorms National Park. Boat of Garten, so named as there was a ferry boat across the River Spey prior to a more modern bridge. I’ve never seen a Pine Marten though…

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaput A contender for #FingerpostFriday next week?😂😂

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaput In the middle of wood/moorland near Aviemore. There is another one a few miles away (in better condition!) dated to 1930’s or 40’s

#FingerpostFriday In case you’ve forgotten your compass…

Some pics from a bike ride today near Glen Feshie in the Cairngorms National Park.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaput Abandoned in the middle of nowhere, miles from the nearest village. Surely there are other much better ways to get rid of a bike??

Pollock’s a pillock….🤷‍♂️

#FingerpostFriday Rothiemurchus Estate, Cairngorms National Park

#FingerpostFriday Posts on the Aviemore Orbital, Cairngorms National Park. All of the posts are within a few metres of each other.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors A rooms in a traditional cottage

#FingerpostFriday Must try harder with the exposure - or a better day! If you zoom in…. At least the leaping Salmon is visible. Aviemore Orbital Path, Cairngorm National Park.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHs More Hares (and Leverets 🤷‍♂️) from the Wild in Art Sculpture Trail, Aberdeenshire 2023