#alness

[scotianostra]

Good Morning from Scotland 

Fyrish Monument at Sunrise 

[spodzone]

Farming, farming, farming by Tim Haynes Via Flickr: Distant snow-capped mountains; a handful of toothpick wind turbines in the middle distance; a few late-turning orange-covered trees among the dark green conifers in the foreground. View of the mountains of Glen Orrin and Strathconon from Fyrish by Alness.

[benvironment]

Day 30 - It's the last full day of my month-long photography tour, and to mark the occasion I headed up here to the Fyrish Monument, somewhere I've been meaning to visit for years. I'm sure it's usually a blowy place but today it was utterly windless, nudging up to 17C, and as a result there were easily more people on that one hill than I've seen in all the places I've visited over the past four weeks combined! Folk clearly love the taste of summer but it's too warm for me, I can feel myself falling asleep already. Zzzzzz. Wake me up in October, someone ;-)

[lahilden]

Ardross Castle is located in Alness, Scotland. The 1st Duke of Sutherland purchased the 60,000-acre Ardross estate on the banks of the Alness River in the late 1700s. He built a hunting lodge on the site. In 1845, he sold the property to Sir Alexander Matheson, 1st Baronet, who improved the estate. In 1847, work began until the estate had acres of gardens, miles of roads, and wire fencing. The hunting lodge was transformed into a Scottish Baronial-style mansion seen today. In 1898, the estate was sold to C.W. Dyson Perrins, who added electricity, modernized the castle, and purchased more land. In 1983, the McTaggart family purchased the estate, restoring the gardens and opening the castle as an exclusive venue. The castle also serves as the filming sight for the series Traitors.

[council-tax]

[council-tax]

[ibri-photo]

From here you couldn’t see the hillside let alone the building when we trekked up here yesterday. Passed it again today and there were some much more interesting clouds enveloping the Fyrish Monument this time… • • • • • #Alness #EasterRoss #Evanton #Fyrish #FyrishMonument #NC500 #NorthCoast500 #Scotland #AdobePhotoshop #MultipleExposure #Manipulation #ScotlandsLandscape #Monuments #Folly #summer #ScotlandHighlands #History #IG_Scotland #VisitScotland #OutAndAboutScotland #ScotlandIsNow #ScotlandMagazine #IGersScotland #ExploreScotland #SonyImages #SonyAlphasClub #A6500 #SEL55210 (at Fyrish Monument) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz3OToZhX_C/?igshid=173wvi731h00z