http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Lunan
See also
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/02/sighthill-stone-circle.html
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| I locked the bike up on Pinkston Rd on the railings in the distance to walk up to the site across the road bridge (I was briefly tempted to enter the portal that opened up between these trees but I had promised to be back by 11) |
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| The site is up on the left of Pinkston Rd here |
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| Park bench and dead bike |
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| The light looked very promising - unlike a normal Glasgow evening for sure |
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| My Canon Powershot failed to cope with the exposure range between the sun-baked faces and the late evening - of course I am a rubbish photographer |
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| Shorter panorama of the previous one |
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| Lovely wee dog belongs to local guy on left; he became the 'greeter' of the evening |
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| The multistories caught the dying sun beautifully |
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| 'One less car' |
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The chimney on the left is that of the Port Dundas Distillery, 230 ft high. Port Dundas once had the highest chimney in the world (built 1859) at 454 ft, and one called Tennent's Stack (built 1842) not far behind at 435 ft. It's been argued that standing stones may be (in part) phallic in their meaning, and chimneys are notoriously open to interpretation in phallic terms - so, oh dear, this area has a history of phallic symbolism to spare. Who knows, perhaps the New Agers are right, and there is some confluence of non-Buckfast-fuelled energies at this point. |
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| The sun burned out most of the detail here - looks not bad in black and white though |
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| Reinforcements arriving on right |
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| More sun issues - toned down the colour on the Mac |
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| An empty Buckfast bottle. Buckfast is an English tonic wine brewed by the monks at Buckfast Abbey. You won't like it; it is alcohol mixed with caffeine and is consumed by genteel old ladies the world over to give their old batteries a surge - except in the West of Scotland, where it is the drink of choice for young neds, aggressive wee boys who roam in groups making life miserable for everyone else. |
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| Note the sun spreading on the stone. .. |
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| . . .as the stone turned red the bottle was put out of its misery and put in a bag to be taken for recycling. It's likely that only very few Buckfast bottles end up being recycled; most end up in landfill, like all too many of the boys who drink it |
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| An old Lewis legend says that the 'Shining One' walks among the stones of Callanish at the Summer solstice |
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| Duncan Lunan, creator of the circle, on right |
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| Duncan on left; Linda Lunan on right taking pics |
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| Back to the bike and the ever-present smell of the Stinky Ocean under Pinkston Rd. See http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/02/sighthill-stone-circle.html |
