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"Sea Beams" by Duncan Urquhart. These are at Dysart, Fife. The artist is from Perth and the trees hewn for the work were grown in Perthshire. Each beam is from a single tree. It was installed in 2009 and is ageing well, faced as it is with the onslaught of a coastal climate.

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What to view on this second Thursday?

That'll do.

Ben More, from Sandbank.

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Thursdays resume for another month...

View over Holy Loch from Historic Kilmun.

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Saturday Symmetry

Connel Bridge, over Loch Etive. Yes, that's in glorious technicolour. 

Hashtag this is Scotland...

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Tuesday - therefore Scenery must happen.

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Scenic Tuesdays bring Scotland to you... in this case, Loch Eck.

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That's the ARgyle, again... passing Toward Point.

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Hot off the lens... have got a wee respite back in my Hutch on the west coast, so the next three Tuesdays will be filled with fresh fodder... this is the Inellen marker on the Firth of Clyde - and some hardy autumn yachters!

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Greenock harbour; the home of the Clyde tugs and tour boats.

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And here we are. Thursday.

Carlton hill, Edinburgh

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One of my true beauty-shots... picking up fuel in Loch Striven

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Thursdays - they come - they go...

Social distancing is actually very easy in remote Binny Land!

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The largest ferry operator in Scotland, fondly known as CalMac. In this case, to the Isle of Bute.

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(mining the archives)

A387, RFA Fort Victoria; naval supply and fuel replenishment; 1990; 204m; 31000t.

This was round at Loch Striven oil depot. Barely a week later, there was a great flurry of movement upon the Clyde Estuary (remember we have Faslane just up the creek...) To see an incoming convoy series.... click here!

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Monday's Critters

The penultimate of the 'coo' images season... and a very old print, scanned. Last century, and even before OZ, (so let's say 40 years...) I was teaching Sunday School and we had a multi-faith congress on the Isle of Iona.

Down on the beaches, the cattle fed on kelp. Very nourishing stuff! Can you make out the farmer right down the shore?

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The smaller of the two foot-passenger ferries serving the Gourock-Dunoon route. Read about the "Ali Cat", and see her original livery prior to CalMac takeover,  HERE.

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Saturday Symmetry

Edinburgh Architecture can be relied upon for pattern!

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An offshore supply ship, you can read about the SD "Victoria" HERE.

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Thursdays. Gotta love 'em.

This piece of 'installation art' stands at the main entrance of the Edinburgh Council Chambers.

We were told it represents the common Edinburgh man.

We let that one hang in the air...

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The larger of the two Gourock-Dunoon foot passenger-only ferryboats, the MV Argyll Flyer.