The Govan Stones on Sunday! A new Sunday series, featuring your favourite early medieval carved stones from the Viking Age kingdom of the Clyde Britons.
First up: The Sun Stone!
Which stone would you like to see next?
Hare by Tamsin Abbot, English stained glass artist #WomensArt
The Two Popes is worth a watch. Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins.
Continuing the theme of weird stuff that's been appearing around Glasgow lately, I spotted this sign on the morning dog walk at the humpback bridge on the Kelvin Walkway.
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#glasgow #kelvinwalkway #signs #starwars #glasgowschoolofart #keepglasgowweird #kesselrun
Machine embroidered artwork by Alison Holt, UK textile artist #WomensArt #Spring
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The perfect beginning of your book doesn’t matter if you get stuck there & never write the rest of the book. Skip the beginning & write the next part & the next. You can write the first chapter later, last even, but without the rest of the story it doesn’t matter. #writingadvice
Print featuring a blue stylised sitting hare, side view facing left, created with an inner floral pattern, the hare sits among tall green bluebell flowers
'Hare and Bluebells' linocut by printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #womensart #Spring
The Glasgow Buildings Preservation Trust have made a video on how to do a Wiki Walk, with a great explanation about what works for Wikimedia Commons 🚶📸🏘️
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#architecture #photography #scotland #openlicense #wikimediacommons
Oh for the library with the moving ladder.
I foresee this in my future 😢
But not yet 😉
I was there at the #beginning, when the giants coalesced from the dust. I watched as their bones cooled to rock and they took their first steps through the sky. They've been wandering for so long now, we think they will be there forever. But they won't. Let's enjoy their walk while we can.
#vss365
An old carved gravestone showing two figures with a large feline head between them and other carvings.
The Wildcat Stane in #Muirkirk said to commemorate two children killed by wildcats in the local area. #gravestones #stanes #legends
Abstract stone sculptures in a park.
Abstract stone sculptures in a park.
Untitled by Jim Barclay. These three stone sculptures used to fuel the imaginations of countless #EastKilbride children playing in the town centre while parents did the shopping.
#Duck feathers are naturally hydrophobic—water just rolls right off. It’s nature’s built-in waterproofing at work
Carving of a coat of arms on a red sandstone building. Includes a double headed eagle, stars, a Cockerell and motto Vigilantibus.
A beautiful carving of Airdrie Burgh's coat of arms.
Motto: Vigilantibus (Being watchful)
We call this Viking-Age hogback 'Govan 6,' and, at 2.4m in length, it's a big beast in every sense!
It may well have been reworked after initial carving, perhaps slicing off guardian end-beasts (or decorated end panels) to transform it into a single dragon-like creature, as with Govan 3 and 4! 🐲
Single track road beside trees in early spring.
Path edged with hedges and trees.
Earthen path through a wee wood.
Bare trees and bluebells by the burn.
Wandering #oldroads of #EastKilbride this afternoon.
Large carved sign for the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire.
Lines in the pavement showing the route of the Antonine Wall.
The Antonine Wall would have run straight through Kirkintilloch. The lines in the pavement follow its route. The rectangular blocks provide more detail.
Print featuring a tiny white cottage with black roof on round hilltop under a sky in dark blue with thousands of stars in yellow pink and white
'Stargazers cottage' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #WomenArt
The (joint) first record I ever bought was Dreaming by Blondie. I bought it because of the stunning drumming throughout. As far as I'm concerned that's what made Blondie. #RIPClemBurke
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Photo featuring three horse sculptures grouped together on the wet sand of a beach under a blue sky, each horse is created with pieces of drift wood and stands facing right
Life size driftwood horse sculptures by UK sculptor Heather Jansch #WomensArt
The bed of the River Clyde at low tide looking inland. There's a line of seaweed ending at a large rock.
Panorama of River Clyde at low tide.
Bird prints in the sand.
Open shell on river bed.
Drove down Havoc Road Dumbarton to the Clyde and wandered about where the river would usually be.
Any ideas what the line of seaweed suggests?
Never feel stupid for thinking 😊.
Lots of clues to lost stones in place-names too.
Bore Stone, Edinburgh. Stone on top of wall of churchyard. Sign below. Church steeple in background.
Plaque at Bore Stone.
Two squares in road marking site of a hanging.
Then heading home and realised how close the Bore Stone and Hanging Stones were.
Standing stone with mound in background. Huly Hill complex at Newbridge.
Caiy stone, Edinburgh . Tall standing stone with hedges on three sides in front of a house.
Standing stone in a cage, situated in a car park beside houses. Ravenwood Avenue, Edinburgh.
Boar Stone, Edinburgh. Low buildings and gates with standing stone.
Exploring Edinburgh stones today. Sunny but freezing in the wind.
Plane flew low overhead at Huly Hill - silenced the barking dogs.
Caiy Stone: location spectacular without houses.
Wondering whether the Ravenwood Stone is inclined to wander and needs restrained.
Spotted Buck Stone by accident.
A woman's hair being blown across her face by the wind on a sunny day.
I should really have remembered the bobble.
Photo of a mounted curved piece of bone with a face carved into one side
Looking Inside Myself, 2002, carved whalebone by Susie Silook, artist of Siberian Yupik, Inupiaq descent #WomensArt
Painting of a woodland carpeted in light purple flowers and with slim tree trunks and fresh green foliage
Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
Sunset from Girvan Beach. Focus on the sky with Ailsa Craig below heavy cloud in the distance.
At Girvan Beach
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Official unveiling at 11am on Tuesday the 1st of April ⏰️
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