Culzean Spam
Oct. 20th, 2012 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anteros_lmcLast weekend we went for a spin down to Culzean for the first time this year. It was an absolutely glorious day and the castle and grounds looked as spectacular as ever. Who knew Scotland could look this pretty in October?!
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 Culzean Castle |
 Dolphin Cannon! |
 The Orangery |
 The Vinery |
 The Swan Pond |
 Swans on the Swan Pond! |
 The Camelia House |
 Looking out from the Camelia House |
 Bang! |
 Pretty sky |
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Date: 2012-10-20 08:48 pm (UTC)And the swans chased him and were scary. (They do, and they are!)
In New England, October is well known to be the best month of the year. The ocean is as warm as it is going to get--not very. You can go swimming, and bundle up in a sweatshirt after. Nothing is sticky, not like it was in the summer. And the sky...
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Date: 2012-10-23 08:20 pm (UTC)I have pictures of daughter climbing on the dolphin cannons :)
October in New England sounds lovely! You wouldn't want to try swimming in Scotland at this time of year, unless you want to risk hypothermia!
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Date: 2012-10-21 05:42 pm (UTC)(The dolphin looks quite exhausted and gulping air, poor thing... *g*)
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Date: 2012-10-23 08:34 pm (UTC)The poor dolphin does look rather exhausted doesn't he? No wonder, he's been holding that cannon up since 1716!
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Date: 2012-10-21 06:10 pm (UTC)Give you much joy of such a wonderful day!
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Date: 2012-10-21 08:52 pm (UTC)And Eglantine is right about the swans! When the ones in the Public Garden in Boston build their nest, the police put caution tape around it -- not to protect the swans so much as to protect the people. You don't want to tangle with an angry swan!
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Date: 2012-10-22 12:11 am (UTC)Although, to be fair, i did hand feed those same swans myself. You just had to stay away when they had babies.
One of the first kid fics that I ever wrote was about Archie feeding ducks bread.
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Date: 2012-10-23 08:45 pm (UTC)Poor little boy. Daughter was chased by a swan in the park recently, luckily she has long legs and got clean away.
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Date: 2012-10-23 08:41 pm (UTC)I know all about angry swans! I worked on an excavation once and our wet sieving station was perilously close to a swans nest. You took your life in your hands every time you went to sieve a bucket of soil!
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Date: 2012-10-23 09:12 pm (UTC)HamMaitland House. I don't know if this was actually the case at Ham House, as the website doesn't say and in any case it's a little restaurant now. But it made a nice place for the lieutenant and the heroine to walk to, when they were walking in the gardens, and it let me get in a line tying it back to the orange cream at dinner the night before.