Skywatch Friday: Cycling Project - glacial erratics
Somewhere along the top of Scotland (it's all getting a bit vague by this time, as I don't know this coastline and my son was busy with the hard business of cycling - and besides there aren't too many place names around) the Cycling Project came across these glacial erratics. It was the summer of glaciers for my son - in July he visited the Mont Blanc glacier in Switzerland on a geography field trip.
See other skies at the Skywatch Friday site.
Thank you(r son) for making me go off and find out what a glacial erratic is.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to smugly pointing one out on my next big camping trip.
Cool, it looks like they could start rolling down the hill at any time!
ReplyDeleteHi Linda
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was to push the stone down the hill.
Great shot of the sky.
Thank´s for your visit, Have a nice weekend
Gunilla
Looks like that rock is about to roll down the hill, but I bet its been there for hundreds of years. Awesome shot.
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend.
Guy
Regina In Pictures
Very pretty and so verdant.
ReplyDeleteLovely photos on your site. The cycling looks like hard work.
ReplyDelete'the top of Scotland'..... like it. All we need to know really. :-)
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how that largest rock seems to just be balancing there. Great skywatch!
ReplyDeleteThe rocks are very cute. Nice photos.
ReplyDeleteHave a nice weekend.
Alexander
Alex's World! - http://www.kakinan.com/alex
thanks for sharing these great shots
ReplyDeleteI like how the road goes off the photograph and then comes back onto the image. Also, I like how the boulders are helter skelter; but then I like rocks, boulders, seashells. Nice sky shot!
ReplyDeleteJoyce
Linda, I'm so happy you discovered me so I could discover you! :-) My husband and I visited Scotland about 5 years ago with my parents. We had a wonderful time touring for about 10 days... it was hard to return home so soon! You have an absolutely beautiful country.
ReplyDeleteI love the first photo. The angle shot is a story by itself. Beautiful clouds.
ReplyDeleteThe old glaciers leave their visiting cards behind. It is rather fun to speculate on what the landscape looked like long ago.
ReplyDeleteNice shots both.
I feel a strong urge to push that big rock and have it roll down the hillside! Very naughty!
ReplyDeleteLooks great.
very nice little road ;)
ReplyDeleteWonderful photos! Happy skywatch Friday!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty, and yet harsh at the same time.
ReplyDeleteYour son did a beautiful job with his photographs, the sky and composition of the second photograph is wonderful. I would have like to have had a geography class like his!!!!
ReplyDeleteSmiles
Wow, what interesting rock deposits! The sky is pretty, too.
ReplyDeleteVery cool !!
ReplyDeleteJust sitting there, minding their own business after being left by a long departed glacier...:-)
Great shots !!
Can't top that one for impact. Great photo and sight.
ReplyDeleteHow great was that for him - Tour de Scotland and Gletchers am die Schweiz.
Great photos of amazing scenery!
ReplyDeleteHow Beautiful!!! Well done!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this beautiful photo!
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteJust came by via Nat's blog, really like the photos.
Will pass the links to my partner Richie, he still misses the hills in Scotland, he lived in Glasgow for 10 yrs.
Have a good evening.
Love,
Herrad
At the moment I can not pursue my love of cycling or my love of Scotland and these pics are about as close as I can get to the wilderness.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting them, I will be thinking about that road as I dodge taxis on the Kinkerstraat on the way to the market tomorrow.
Great photos!
Wonderfully random erratics around there. That must be a windy place for biking.
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