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Super Blue Moon 2018
Today we were promised a unique celestial event – not just a super moon! but a super blue moon!! My imagination ran wild. Earlier this evening I looked up to the heavens in anticipation, and high hopes.
But wait… it’s just a regular full moon! heading back to the flat disappointed, fearing the evening was fair ruined, one turned to Photoshop for help as – I really wanted to see a Super Blue moon.
Super Blue Moon 2018
ahhhhh that’s better!
Super Blue Moon 2018
Blackness Castle
Blackness Castle, on a very dreich and snowy Scottish day. A 15th-century castle looks apparently like a ‘ship that never sailed’… Closed today, I wonder why! 
thwarted by the weather – pffft!!!
Blackness Castle
Probably the best of the bunch – I’ll upload a few more photos soon…
Panoramic – Bannockburn Battlefield
Panoramic – Bannockburn Battlefield
we can see the Rotunda and flagpole and the Statue of Robert The Bruce – all commemorating the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. When Robert Burns visited the site in 1793 he pend the poem ‘Scots Wha Hae’
Bannockburn Battlefield
Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led;
Welcome to your gory bed,
Or to victory!
Now’s the day, and now’s the hour;
See the front o’ battle lour;
See approach proud Edward’s power—
Chains and slavery!
Wha will be a traitor knave?
Wha can fill a coward’s grave!
Wha sae base as be a slave?
Let him turn and flee!
Wha for Scotland’s king and law
Freedom’s sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand, or freeman fa’,
Let him follow me!
By oppression’s woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty’s in every blow!—
Let us do or die!
The wikipedia page has English and Scottish Gaelic translation
Panoramic – Huntly Castle
Panoramic (not a great one) of Huntly Castle,
Huntly Castle is a ruined castle in Huntly in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was the ancestral home of the chief of Clan Gordon
Huntly Castle
Panoramic – Ruthven Barracks
Panoramic photo of Ruthven Barracks, near Ruthven in Badenoch, Scotland, are the smallest but best preserved of the four barracks built in 1719 after the 1715 Jacobite rising.
Ruthven Barracks
However there has been a fortified structure on this hilltop site in 1229.
Panoramic – Culloden Battlefield
Panoramic of Culloden Battlefield
Panoramic of Culloden Battlefield
Fought on the 6 April 1746 near Inverness, the Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
Panoramic – Fort George
A panoramic photo of the 18th century Fort George, near Ardersier, to the north-east of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands
Panoramic – Fort George
Panoramic – Urquhart Castle
Another Iconic Scottish castle, the Beautiful Urquhart Castle located on the shores of Loch Ness
near Inverness.
Panoramic – Urquhart Castle
More photos of Urquhart Castle and other historic sites on the Highlands 2017 album link
Panoramic – Dunnottar Castle
The Iconic Dunnottar Castle
an Iconic ruined medieval castle Near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Panoramic shot of Dunnottar Castle
More photos of Dunnottar Castle and other historic sites on the Highlands 2017 album link