Bridge over the River Esk, Dalkeith, Midlothian

52 Weeks – Week 11 Bridge Over Still Waters

Mar 14, 2021May 2, 2021Leave a comment

A throwback to last year when we could move around more freely, with the hope that such times we we are able to resume those freedoms again are getting closer.

Carved chair at Vogrie House, Midlothian

52 Weeks – Week 10 The Storyteller’s Chair

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Are you sitting comfortably? Then we can begin…

52 Weeks – Week 9 Tower In The Wood

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What looks like it could be a tower belonging to a fairy tale princess, is actally an elaborate dovecot in the Saltoun Woods to the south of Pencaitland, East Lothian.

52 Weeks – Week 8 Rebirth

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As the the snows of the previous week, life emerges in the garden.

52 Weeks – Week 7 Snowy Sentry

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Standing guard outside the front door.

52 Weeks – Week 6 Blackbird

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One of the regular visitors to the garden enjoying some sourdough scraps.

Trevelyan Hall from the woodland path to Ormiston

52 Weeks – Week 5 Pencaitland

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Pencaitland’s Trevelyan Hall and Doo’ Cot from the woodland path to Ormiston.

52 Weeks – Week 4 Frozen

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Puddle Wood, between Ormiston an Pencaitland, in the depths of winter.

Statue of Wojtek the bear, in Duns, Scottish Borders

52 Weeks – Week 3 Soldier Bear

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Located in the town square in Duns, one of the many statues in the Lothians and the Scottish Borders celebrating Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear who served with the Polish II Corps during WWII. In order to provide for his rations and transportation, he was eventually enlisted officially as a soldier with the rank of private, and was subsequently promoted to corporal. After the war, his regiment were stationed in the area for a time before returning to Poland. Wojtek remained in Scotland at Edinburgh Zoo until his death in 1963.