Beautifully-feathered sculls.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Sculler on the River Clyde
From an early morning walk to the train station last Tuesday. Taken from St Andrew’s Bridge which crosses from Govan to Glasgow Green.
Shard nightscape
A surprisingly-steady hand-held shot from my hotel window in London last week. Rather impressed with this new camera – must start carrying a compact tripod around with me …
Dalavich Church
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Evolution is a lie says the school. Good curriculum, says England’s School Inspectorate
Maranatha Christian School, featured in a BBC news report this week, teaches that the Earth is 6,000 years old, that this is a scientifically established fact, and that evolution has long since been scientifically disproven. Then why do some scientists still advocate it? Because they don’t want to admit the existence of a God to whom they would be morally responsible. It is these 
same benighted evolutionists who are responsible for the theory that the Sun is powered by nuclear fusion., whereas in reality it is powered by gravity, and shrinking at such a rate that it would have been large enough to engulf the young Earth if the Earth really were millions of years old. But of course we shouldn’t be contemplating any such silly idea, because God has told us different and that settles it. The waters above the firmament in Genesis 1 ended up feeding Noah’s…
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Dining room at the Longroom, Smithfield
Just got back from a trip to London, so here’s the first of the crop. This is a dining room at the back of the Longroom pub, close by Smithfield market, and where I dropped in on Tuesday to slake my thirst on a hot summer’s day in London. Good beer, and unusually sold by the third!
Knot
Eroadsion III
Kilmartin and Kilmartin Glen
This view is from the hill behind the village of Kilmartin, and shows the extent of the glen all the way to the Add estuary and looking into North Knapdale.
Sweet briar (Rosa rubiginosa)
The roadside is prolific with flowers at this time of year. This sweet briar was down near the Dog Loch and caught on my walk into Kilmartin this morning.
Patrick Mackie 