Castle Dow Walk

Here are some pictures I took today on the Castle Dow walk at Grandtully. It was uphill all the way but it was definitely worth the effort for the view at the top where you find yourself surrounded by Victorian cairn like sculptures. The view of the river Tay was spectacular, especially in the low winter light. Throughout most of the walk you follow the forestry commission road until the last few paces where you take a narrow track to the summit of the hill. The walk was about 4.5miles (to the top and back down). Apparently there is to be a hill run there at some point as well. To all those brave and mad enough to participate in the event, I salute you!

Victorian Cairn Sculptures

Dad and his binos

Lichen on Cairn sculpture

A Creepy House And I Plant I'm Not Sure Of

 I took these pictures while going on a walk through Bluebell Woods. The top picture is one of a rather run down house on the edge of the wood, which I think is being done up. On any day it makes for a pretty gloomy site and it has always creeped me out a bit. The second picture is of a plant that grows in the front garden of my home called Teasle or Teasel, I'm not sure which. My dad planted it in order to attract bees, other insects and birds. I took this photo before going on the walk.

Grasses In The Wind

This was taken before a walk through Drimmie woods. I was just messing around with the zoom on my new camera when I took this

Finally I Have Pictures!

I have finally worked out a way to put photos onto the blog! I still can't upload them which makes me want to throw the computer against a wall hulk style. I've found that the only way I can get new photos up is to post them on my google profile and then take them off the Picasa web album file and then put them on the blog. Yes its stressful business but I've got some photos for you at least. Also, I made a new Google profile for another blog of mine and then realised if I invited myself to post on this one I don't have to create another profile. It's all very confusing but it works out relatively well in the end.

On to the photos:

These two are experimental photos of a lampshade in my grandmother's house. Not a particularly thrilling subject, but its good practise and I think they turned out pretty well. I've got a few more to post so watch this space.

Sudden Lack Of Pictures

I was going to post some pictures that I have recently taken because I haven't posted in ages but for some reason the picture upload link icon isn't working. So I think I'll just explain why I haven't posted. It's because I just got fed up with my camera. I couldn't take the sort of pictures I wanted to. I was going to try to post some pictures today that were taken with my new camera which I got for christmas. It's a Fujifilm Finepix S4500 which I think is a bridge camera, so the images are a lot better than the ones taken by my previous camera. I'm going to attempt to post some pictures later on, probably tomorrow. The computer is just doing my head in at the minute!

From Loch Of The Lowes To Dunkeld

I took this today on another of our loverly walks. It’s just a tree stump I thought was a bit odd since there seemed to be holes burrowed in it. My rubbish camera has done me proud…sort of. Now it’s just my computer letting me down since it won’t let me edit any pictures. I know, the hard life of a country gal.
Our walk was about 7km, not too bad actually. I quite enjoyed it since it was hot again today. It’s quite strange since the sun hasn’t been shining, in fact, it feels like there should be a massive thunder storm. I’ve heard that over the next two days we’re getting a months worth of rain. I can believe it after the rain we had last night! (Oh yeah, well done Andy, you’ve reached the Wimbledon final!)

I thought these sheep were absolutely hilarious! My brother, being a bit strange, started making baaing noises and completely wound them up. They were just running in the opposite direction to him, and throwing the dirtiest looks sheep can possibly throw!

We walked by a few piles of logs as we neared the saw mill, so I thought I’d take a nice wee picture of the stacked logs. I quite like the colour of the centres of the logs, it looks a little like caramel. Now I’m just making myself hungry!
P.S good luck to all those at T in the park, especially my cousin. It’s going to tip it down.

Drimi Woods

This was taken with my rubbish camera. Why? I think my aunt is selling the other one. *Insert scream of frustration here*. Aw well, I guess I’ll have to invest in a camera of my own. Until then, I’m back to the Sony. I took this photo while on a walk with ma daddio and brother in Drimi woods (not sure of the spelling here) as you do. Unfortunately during the walk we were attacked by swarms of flies and I was drooled on by somebody’s labrador. And when I say drooled on, I mean there was a puddle on my coat. It was a grim moment I tell you.

I think this is called a convex mirror…it was by the roadside and I thought it would look cool. I’m surprised it turned out alright (mainly because I’ve realised it’s near impossible to take good pictures on a bad camera) but there’s still the problem of the date appearing on EVERY PHOTOGRAPH! Maybe if I moan enough, on my blog and at home, someone will eventually get so annoyed they might buy me a camera. Very wishful thinking I know.

This is my dad freeing a sheep from a fence. I don’t know why but a lot of my memories of him involve things being freed from fences. It’s like he’s the saviour of animals in distress. The man really should join the RSPCA. The sheep, being kind of dumb, decided it was going to free itself and got its wool tangled into the wire. Dad did eventually get it out though. 
P.S I’m using windows live writer to publish this, so if it comes out all weird you know why!