Lulu at Coillieghillie’s Coral Beach…1 March 2012

Henderson House at Low Tide…Village of Coillieghillie in the Highlands of Scotland on the Inner Hebrides Sea

Home Office of Concept + Copy in Winter of 2012…Henderson House Kitchen…Highlands of Scotland

Friends and Daily Visitors to Henderson House_Village of Coillieghillie_Winter 2012

Sunset in Winter of 2012 from Front Door of Henderson House_Coillieghillie

Ice on Ground_January 2012_Above Village of Coillieghillie

Peat for the Fires_Cut & Drying_Coillieghillie

Full Moon_Winter 2012_Seen Through Rowan Tree of Henderson House

Holding Up the House_Coillieghillie_Winter 2012

Full Moon_Camera Hand-Held & Breath Held, Too.

Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner on Most Days: Fresh Off the Fish Van

Isle of the Dead Pharaoh: Off Coillieghillie in Hebridian Sea

Sunset Over Cuillin Mountains on Isle of Skye in Winter

Coillieghillie Shoreline during February 2012 Storm

Front Yard of Henderson House on a Sunday Afternoon in February

“Wood of the Lads” in Winter of 2012

“The Red House” in Coillieghillie – with New Chicken House Adjacent

Red Wheel Full of History & Sadness

Ard Ban / “White Point” That I Call Ross

A Very Special Place Near Coillieghillie

Bird on Ard Ban

Several Sheeps Who Seem To Know Me

Where’s Lulu?

Coral Beach Near Village of Coillieghillie

Sunset Over Isle of Raasay – From Coral Beach in Winter

Tigh Calan / “Colin’s Shed” – Worked on “Restoring” This for Several Weeks in 2012

Bird in Front Yard of Henderson House

High Tide in Front of Henderson House – Winter 2012

High Tide 2 in Front of Henderson House – Coillieghillie

“Cement” Holding Tigh Calan Together

Long shot of Tigh Calan’s “Cemented” South Wall

Beginnings of IASGAIR [“FISHERMAN”] Structure

Shells from Coral Beach Sent Home to Meaghan

Wallace & Grommit on BBC / Alba TV Show in Gaelic

Sunset Over Isle of Raasay – Looking Toward Viking [?] Settlement of Hallaig

Front of Henderson House at Low Tide

Rain On The Way from Isle of Raasay

Scatter My Ashes While Standing Here

Bird 3

Shooting through Kitchen Window of Henderson House

GOD BLESS YOU Cut Into Stone Path to Coillieghillie & Ard Ban

Looking Toward Tigh Calan and Village of Camustearach Beyond

Root of Still Blooming Rowan Tree on Island of Eilean Mor on Crowlin Islands, Hebridian Sea

Images are from Applecross Peninsula, Ross-Shire, West Highlands, Scotland – 2010 through 2012. Returned with Meaghan in October-November or 2013, and will return for several months in the fall of this year.

For more information on the locations shown in this post, you can check out these links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applecross

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/applecross/applecross/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowlin_Islands

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/nov/30/featuresreviews.guardianreview35

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raasay

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuillin

Also, when you use Google Chrome to enter almost any name that appears in the captions you’ll see the images of many other photographers for that place/location.

That’s all for now…Ross

NOTE: The lack of captions for some photos reflects my lack of knowing how to add them, rather than any failure of WordPress…

AS ALWAYS: If you would like to know more about an  image – especially one without a caption, just let me know; email @ ross.payne110@gmail.com is best…thanks!

PLEASE ALSO NOTE: There is another “section” to this entry; it follows the photos [mostly?], and relates to a writing – rather than photo – project that I am working on these days…

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2 orchids for $10 @ Grocery Outlet, and I already had 1 here for Meaghan

Looking from bathroom through bedroom area without a bed – before general move of stuff to storage unit.

Some kind of flower in Santa Clara Central Park about first winter’s day 2014

Back door of City of Santa Clara’s Central Park Library

Pup is 18 lbs. these days, and here he is waiting for me to unload groceries from the Mazda last month.

The way home in the best Zen Sense…

THE FOLLOWING TEXT IS UNRELATED TO THE ABOVE TEXT AND/OR IMAGES: This text is one of several entries I will use in a document of mixed fictional & historical &  biographical “facts,” based on books I’ve collected during the past ~10 years, selected randomly – both the books themselves & the pages that I’ve opened. There are approximately 30 books in this “collection,” and this is text no. 2 of those ~30. The idea is for these texts entries to stimulate an “original” response of my “own”…sort of like the way reviewers in The New York Book Review review the books they review:

Today’s Entry Amongst Those ~30 Books_on 10 January 2015

−from page 63 of Second Officer, by Taffrail, “The Marryat of the Modern Navy,” Captain Taprell Dorling, D.S.O., F.R. Hist.S., R.N., Hodder and Stoughton, April 1936.

Dedication

With my grateful thanks

to

many new friends in New Zealand,

and to

the commanders

the officers, cadets and crews

of those two cargo-liners

in which,

by the kindness of the company concerned,

I voyaged to New Zealand

and home again

as a very ‘supernumerary mate’,

and, in the course of 4-1/2 months,

learnt a great deal

that

I

never

knew

before.

…AND IMMEDIATELY BELOW IS THE TEXT THAT FOLLOWS – ON PAGE 63 OF “SECOND MATE,” published/revised in 1936]:

“leeward. More than half a dozen times during her perilous descent his heart had been in his mouth.

He picked up a megaphone and put it to his lips, shouted something that was immediately filched away by the wind. Nobody heard him, but what he had bellowed was−“Good work! Well done!”

The floating oil had reached the Papadulos. The sea no longer broke over her. She lay pitching sluggishly in the swell, still lying over to starboard.

Looking at her, it struck Ravensworth that her list had increased, that her stern was deeper in the water. Her after well-deck was entirely submerged−the tops of the seas cascading over her short poop.

She seemed to be sinking slowly by the stern as water found its way forward. The end could not be long delayed.

‘Half-speed ahead!’ he ordered. ‘Helm hard aport!’

‘Go down to the chief engineer and ask him to carry on with the oil!’ he added to the cadet messenger.

He intended to steam direct to windward doing what he could to flatten the water before making a wide circle to leeward to pick up the lifeboat.”

                                                 [All text above is all text of Page 63; the end of Chapter IV]

today is 011015 @ studio-c, while blogging anew from ~0415 to 0700 on this saturday morning yet still dark & reasonably cold beginning of day

Photos immediately below are from December 2014 folder on iMac, though images go back as far as 2010 while in the Highlands of Scotland…photos are “Words of the Day” as this new year begins @ ~0700 here on the very west coast of the united states of america…

Today is a Friday, 22 March 2013. On Angel’s 11th-month birthday on Wednesday, the wonderful & very caring girls – can  I say that – at the Santa Clara Pet Hospital weighed Angel at 74 lbs. & 7 oz.

A gain of only 7 oz. in 2 weeks, so her rapid growth is slowing. Given that Angel is now almost double her weight of 40+ pounds when Lori first brought her home last fall  – October, I think.

Lori hopes Angel can stay at about 80 lbs., which is a healthy weight for a “smaller” female Rottweiler. The vet says that big dogs “mature” at 18 months, rather than 12, so “Stay tuned,” as old-time tv used to say…

Anyway, these 3 photos are from this afternoon, just before Angel met up with her best friend, Axel, an Alaskan Husky that initially outweighed Angel by at least 15 lbs. Those days are long gone, although I do have a short video of then & will post as soon as I learn how WordPress allows that.

I see that I’m at twice the my self-imposed limit of 100 words.

Always trust what you see, rather than what is said.

I think Buffalo Bob – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bob_Smith –  was the first to say that…

Friendly wild cat seeks gentle owner for long-term monogamous relationship.

9 reasons to take me home with you

[1] I’ll be six years old this Fourth of July! Let’s Celebrate – Starting Now!

[2] I weigh 14.9 pounds

[3] I am a 1-person companion who likes to hiss & show my teeth to anyone else. Sometimes I like to trick people into petting me & then scare them. But I almost never use my claws – and I’ve had my rabies shots.

[4] I am in neutral regarding my sexual driving, but I may still need help learning to spray only outside.

[5] I was recently treated for being unable to pee, but the wonderful doctors dave & kent fixed that without any surgery, and I’m fine now.

[6] To stay fit & ready for any fight, about 80% of my diet needs to be “urinary SO.” I eat ~one 6oz can per day, and each can costs about $1.50. So that’ll set you back like a latte every other day – if I were a drinker. But coffee sometimes keeps me awake during the day.

[6] I think I could be happy living inside, especially if I could come & go as I please.

[8] I’m beautiful – please see my many accompanying photos…

[9] I can supply excellent references for my behavior when loved by a kind person.

A PDF PSA Just for You from Pup

If you’d like to meet me, please send an email c/o ross.payne110@gmail.com or loriamay08@gamail.com and we’ll get back to you.

Meow! Meow!

Pup, a.k.a., Star, a.k.a. Cubby