Beautiful.

A beautiful place with beautiful views over the Sound of Sleat towards the mainland: Aird of Sleat can be found near the southern tip of the Isle of Skye. Mallaig and the mountains of Knoydart can be seen in the background. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Skye #Sleat

636 years ago today. Elgin Cathedral was burned by Alexander Stewart, the Wolf of Badenoch, on 17 June 1390 after the Bishop of Moray, Bishop Alexander Bur, caused his excommunication for marital infidelity. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #ElginCathedral #Moray #OnThisDay

Reconstruction mock-up of Balmerino Abbey, in Balmerino, Fife, (Scotland) A Cistercian monastery. Burnt by English forces during the Wars of the 'Rough Wooing' in 1547. #BalmerinoAbbey #HistoryRebuilt

"Communities built on mutual trust have fewer cracks into which Reform and others can pour their poison." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on "neighbourism" and what we can do as individuals when political leaders refuse to lead. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2619226...

The beautiful remains of Dryburgh Abbey, one of the four great abbeys of the Scottish Borders. It is surrounded on three sides by a loop in the River Tweed, giving the ruins a wonderful sense of seclusion and calm. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #ScottishBorders

A monster Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), Aberdeenshire. Its common name honours David Douglas, the Scottish botanist who sent the first Douglas-fir seeds from the Pacific Northwest to Scotland in 1826. Man for scale 😁 #ThickTrunkTuesday

They were an amazing generation.

One broch, two millennia, three murders. ‘Thicker Than Water’ is a compelling murder mystery set in northern Scotland. The ruined Castle Sinclair Girnigoe is visited in the hunt for a murderer. Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/ttw/index.html

‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Stranraer railway station has a role as the spy hunt moves towards its dramatic climax. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/fof/index.html

The Bata Shoe 👠 Museum in Toronto has an exhibit on now that I’d love to see, “Unearthing Vindolanda: Footwear from the Edge of the Roman Empire.” Love that Beth Greene (my Tar Heel sister!) is co-curating the 1000s of leather sandals (and baby shoes) from the fort. batashoemuseum.ca/exhibitions/...

The graveyard at Trumpan Church, on the Isle of Skye's Waternish Peninsula, the scene of a bloody clan massacre in May 1578. In the battle that followed the MacLeods are said to have unfurled their famed Fairy Flag. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Trumpan #IsleOfSkye #Skye

Pastel promise, Dunstanburgh Acrylic on 30x30x4 cm canvas

It's absolutely gorgeous.

Kagoshima Ohara Festival, Japan. Photography @tiffaart

The majestic and amazingly complete remains of the abbey church at Jedburgh Abbey in the Scottish Borders. It was founded in 1138 and developed over several centuries, despite repeatedly falling victim to cross-border conflict. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #ScottishBorders

On this day in history. Mary Queen of Scots escaped from imprisonment in Lochleven Castle, on its island in Loch Leven, 457 years ago today on 2 May 1568. She would subsequently make an unsuccessful attempt to regain power in Scotland. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland

Fascinating!

Inside St. Pancras

Modeling in a vintage (about 1930s) silk wedding furisode with hand-painted yuzen-dyed auspicious cranes.

And we don't forget the brave Turks, who were such a fierce and noble foe. Or Peebles/Aussie boy, Eric Bogle, who wrote the best anti-war song; and the band played... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFz...

The Harbour (Talkabout the Beach, 1975) Artist: Harry Wingfield

188 years ago today. John Muir, who convinced US President Theodore Roosevelt that Yosemite should be protected as a national park, was born in Dunbar in East Lothian on 21 April 1838. Today his birthplace is a museum about him. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #EastLothian

Rehabilitation of the Dandelion! No other plant in the Netherlands attracts as many bee species: 107. In early spring, when nothing else is blooming, it is simply there. Meadow bird chicks that have just hatched depend on the insects that are drawn to dandelions. No dandelion, no insect, no chick.

This is a view of Mount Fuji seen through cherry blossoms in full bloom in a mountain garden… a once-a-year kind of magic you don’t just pass by. 🌸✨ #Mt.Fuji #Sakura #Shizuoka

We're All Radicals Here! open.substack.com/pub/maggieec...

Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder committed in the Douglas Gardens, shown here. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and more widely across Scotland during World War Two. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.arachnid.scot/book-has/ind...

Excellent. Now, please use "GB Energy" investment £ - if that's not just a PR stunt - to buy the Ardersier wind turbine manufacture plan you've just blocked (for a clearly spurious reason). We've had enough of you blocking projects and closing plants in Scotland, after pledging to invest in them.

The Light At Night #photography #travel #ECK #EastCoastKin #Edinburgh #Scotland #UrbanGaze Edinburgh, Scotland- 25 December 2013

You can’t ask a dead man who pulled the trigger. ‘A Tangled Web’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in northern Scotland. Kilmuir on the Black Isle plays a central role as the story builds towards its climax. Available in Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/atw/index.html

The image showcases the serene Sakuranosato Park in Mie Prefecture, Japan, where vibrant cherry blossoms lean over the tranquil Miyagawa River. This scenic location is celebrated by photographers for the perfect "V-shaped" reflection of the pink blooms against the surrounding evergreen mountains.

Paws for thought... Move along, nothing to see here; just a bloke and his feline friend caught lazing in an unnamed Glasgow doorway, in 1975. Pic: Iain Mackenzie

Beautiful.

Off to that Edinburgh today for lunch... Planning to visit the Alfred Buckham exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. He was a darkroom magician. Pic: Alfred Buckham

Rose-cut diamond and black enamel ring in high-carat gold with silver collets (western Europe, late 17C or early #c18 #c18th #18thc), with Matthew Holder, London

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I love how some pieces of Glasgow graffiti become almost iconic, such as this sadly ignored cri de coeur in the old Oatlands. One pal even had it stencilled onto a T-shirt. I could fair murder a bag of pakora...

Watercolour painting of Alfie from this photo. #cats #catsofbluesky #petportraits

#OTD in 1954, there was a tram-a-jama-ding-dong on Renfield Street. We're outside the Odeon Cinema, in Renfield Street, with the trams all glowing like magic lanterns. You've even got Irn-Bru's Neon Ba-Bru advert winking and blinking at you from high above Central Station. Pic: Newsquest

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One of the many great musical set pieces in #Sinners is “Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go” (aka “Wild Mountain Thyme”) – adapted in the 1940s by Francis McPeake from “The Braes o Balquhidder”, an original song by Robert Tannahill (1774–1810), Paisley’s “weaver poet” #C18 #music www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xh5...

Woodblock print by Katsukawa Shunshō (1726–1792), part of his 1775 illustrated anthology titled Nishiki hyakunin isshu Azuma ori ("One Hundred Poets, Eastern Brocade Style"). Japan

Made a new pal today 🦙

Wonderful, exquisite music.

My latest article for Historia.

Goslings by Gosling (2026)

No mean kitty... It's Friday the 13th, so here's a lucky black cat for you. Just two old pals meeting on the street. Pic: Gorbals, 1953, Haywood Magee for Picture Post.

Beautiful.

I don’t understand the world. We could still have timetables that look like this. LCC Trams May 1932. #BoudicaFriday #Echolands

Pair of Chinese export plates with fake, possibly #Jacobite -coded, armorials (c1750)