{"id":2974,"date":"2016-08-09T08:42:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T07:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2016-08-09T08:42:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T07:42:58","slug":"a-castle-in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2974","title":{"rendered":"A castle in the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The best-laid schemes of mice and men, gang aft agley<\/em>.\u00a0 So wrote Robert Burns in\u00a0his poem\u00a0To a Mouse<\/em>.\u00a0 As for mice, so for photographers it would seem.\u00a0 It had been blowing a gale all night,\u00a0but now the sun was out.\u00a0 Good conditions I hoped for my much awaited photograph of Buchanness Lighthouse in a storm.\u00a0 But when I got to Boddam, the sea was calm, despite the strong wind blowing from the north west.\u00a0 Out to sea there were waves in evidence, but here by the shore, the island was sheltered.\u00a0\u00a0 No waves breaking over the rocks.\u00a0 I will have to await another day with the wind from the east, perhaps.<\/p>\n

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But the day was too good to miss, so the dogs and I went to explore the ruins of Boddam Castle, whose\u00a0silhouette I have often seen from the main road.<\/p>\n

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I discovered there was a little car park, and a small board telling about the history of the castle.\u00a0 It was built by the Keiths of Ludquharn in the late 16th century on a promontory, protected by two deep gullies on either side.\u00a0 There is not much left of the old stronghold, just a gable end with arch and window, and the low remains of some walls.<\/p>\n

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But the sunshine, the clouds and the yellow tansies made for good photographs.\u00a0 And the dogs loved the romp along the path, and for Poppy at least, a scamper over stones and walls.\u00a0 Indeed they were both keen to follow the path down to the shore, but the steep slope was not for me in the strong wind, so we turned, to\u00a0go back\u00a0to the car.\u00a0 I am already planning more photographs here, when the light is right.<\/p>\n

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The best-laid schemes of mice and men, gang aft agley.\u00a0 So wrote Robert Burns in\u00a0his poem\u00a0To a Mouse.\u00a0 As for mice, so for photographers it would seem.\u00a0 It had been blowing a gale all night,\u00a0but now the sun was out.\u00a0 Good conditions I hoped for my much awaited photograph of Buchanness Lighthouse in a storm.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}