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Leid Freen
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Mostly I post photographs and Scots-language text (with English translations).

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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · Aug 22
Maistlie A post limns an Scots-leid text (wi Southron owersettins).

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#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography
leidfreen.bsky.social
Rokes an jeel i the simmer.

Rocks and ice in summer.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #icecream #van #rocks #hill #people #trafficsign #grass #sky #Edinburgh #Scotland.
A monochrome photograph. In the bottom-left foreground an ice-cream van is parked in front of a fence behind which is a, largely rocky, hillside. The van, in front of which is a rock with a triangular ‘roundabout’ traffic sign, is facing the camera. To the right of the van a few people are queuing.
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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mitchellsquid.bsky.social
The lone survivor
Mitchell P
#art
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Beckin.

Bowing.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #man #tree #hill #grass #sky
A colour photograph showing a grassy hillside. A tree and the small figure of a man can be seen – partly against a blue, cloudless sky. The man is bowing his head to look at his phone and the tree is leaning towards him.
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Anither railins owerby.

Another set of railings over there.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #building #railings #grass #gravel #building #Edinburgh #Scotland
A colour photograph showing a view through the upper parts of some dark-green railings towards another set of railings at the entrance to a tunnel on a grassy slope in the distance. In between is a gravel surface. Also visible in the distance, on the right-hand side, is part of a pillar.
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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stdrozdowski72.bsky.social
#photography #nature #blackandwhite #canon #lake #landscape #art #noAL (c)stdrozdowski72
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
leidfreen.bsky.social
A bit licht an shedda in Embro.

A bit of light and shadow in Edinburgh.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #building #gable #whitewash #chimney #shadow #sky #Edinburgh #Scotland
A colour photograph showing an old whitewashed building which is roughly U-shaped, has a red roof and has two windowed gable walls – each topped by a chimney – facing the camera at an angle. The right-hand gable wall is in shadow. The sky is blue and cloudless.
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
‘A mile an a bittock, a mile or twa’.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #woman #man #people #summer #walking #path #grass #hill #poetry
A colour photograph. In the foreground, a man and a woman, dressed for summer, are walking side by side away from the camera and up a curving, gently sloping path through grass. In the background is a hill with pale blue sky above it.
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Quine an Cailleach.

Young woman and older woman.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #women #man #people #wall #face
A colour photograph. In the background is a grey wall. In the middle ground, on the left, a young woman is walking in the general direction of the camera. She is partly obscured by the shoulder and arm of a man, the rest of whom is out of shot. In the bottom-right foreground, roughly one half of an older woman’s face/head is visible.
November 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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mitchellsquid.bsky.social
Happy Halloween #art
Mitchell P
October 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
leidfreen.bsky.social
The Naitional Moniment o Scotlan, Embro.

The National Monument of Scotland, Edinburgh.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #monument #Edinburgh #Scotland #hill #people #grass #sky.
A monochrome photograph showing a very large monument inspired by Classical Greek architecture. People can be seen on and around its base, which supports twelve Doric columns topped by an entablature.
October 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Brae-face tae braeheid.

Hillside to hilltop.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #hillside #bush #grass #hilltop #monuments #sky #Edinburgh #Scotland.
A monochrome photograph. In the right foreground is a bush while to its left, and extending beyond it, is a grassy slope. In the distance is a hilltop on which can be seen two monuments and some trees.
October 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Brattach an biggin. A doot this is a compaingen piece tae the twa limns ablow.

Flag and building. I suppose this is a companion piece to the two photographs below.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #building #flag #flowers #horns #roof #sky #Scotland #architecture
A colour photograph. In the background is the upper part of an old whitewashed building. In the foreground, but appearing to fly above the building and against a blue sky, is a yellow flag hanging from a more-or-less horizontal pole. On the flag are three representations of a red-and-yellow flower tied to a blue-and-red horn.
October 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
leidfreen.bsky.social
The lums, the lift an aw that.

The chimneys, the sky and all that.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #colourphotography #buildings #roofs #chimneys #sky #structures #architecture
A monochrome photograph looking up at the sky and taking in the upper stories of part of an old building on the left, and, on the right, part of the side and underside of a structure supporting temporary seating. A monochrome photograph looking up at the sky and taking in the upper stories of part of an old whitewashed building in the background on the left, and, on the right in the foreground, part of the metal ornamentation of a building opposite.
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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oornews.bsky.social
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s pittin doon o Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado as a “demonic witch” cairries wecht ayont jist political rhetoric. Iss laidit term spot-lichts a mirkier, truth o ongaan witch hunts...

Read in Doric at:

oornews.co.uk/sco-ne/untit...
The Witch Trials o the 21st Century - oorNews
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s recent pittin doon o Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado as a “demonic witch” cairries wecht ayont jist political rhetoric. Fyle intendit as a crude s...
oornews.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Burds on the riggin.

Birds on the roof.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #wall #buildings #roof #birds #tower #sky
A monochrome photograph. In the foreground is the upper part of a wall. Over the top of the wall can be seen the roof of an old building with several birds sitting on it – mainly on the ridge. To the left of the building an old tower is visible in the distance.
October 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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ricfrophoto.bsky.social
#abstract #abstractart #geometricart #abstractartwork #composition #geometricartwork #colurs #structure #geometric #mixedmedia
October 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Jooglin thae lowes.

Juggling those flames.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #colourphotography #fire #flames #juggling #streetperformer #man #people #crowd
A colour photograph of a man giving a performance that involves the juggling of fire torches. He stands on a platform surrounded by a crowd. In the background are the columns and windows of a building.
October 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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mountainalchemy303.bsky.social
Jammin out to Clash
in a field of iris roots.
His vertical views.

“What are we going to do now”

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_lt4...

(Multi-colored skies on this day- dedicated to Andy, a friend who always stood tall supporting his art communities & beliefs)

#haiku #blueskyartshow #clash #eastcoastkin
Watercolor & graphite sketch with a little photo editing.. of a friend from the past hanging at the Iris farm down in Boulder,CO after a long day of work..
October 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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albertkirkjr.bsky.social
#Scotstober: Vance

Fae Moby-Dick, Ch. 24

Nae mense in whaulin? The mense o wur cawin the verra heivens attest. Cetus is a constellation in the Sooth! Nae mair! Drive doon yer bunnet in presence o the Czar, an tak it aff tae Queequeg! 1/2
October 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
No the Saxties.

Not the Sixties.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #art #colour #colourphotography #monochrome #building #glass #architecture
A photograph showing a top corner of a modern building. Its walls are glass and the sky has been replaced by an area of green.
October 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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mitchellsquid.bsky.social
Rope trick
Mitchell P
#art
October 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Tarpitin daffin. Signin durin an enterteenment on the Royal Mile, Embro.

Interpreting fun. Signing during an entertainment on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #colourphotography #Edinburgh #RoyalMile #Scotland #signlanguage #BSL #deaf
A colour photograph showing a woman in a ‘BSL’ T-shirt who is using sign language. In the foreground are parts of the backs of heads of people in the crowd that she is standing in front of. Behind her is the grey wall of a building as well as black railings.
October 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Cloints an reid.

Logs and red.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #art #colour #colourphotography #monochrome #logs #wood #red
A photograph showing two monochrome logs on a red background. A cross section of each log is facing the viewer.
October 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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williamduguid1.bsky.social
'It might be comforting to think of the Nobel committee as sensible grown-ups who are unlikely to accede to the demands of the man-baby in the White House.
However, the Oslo prize-givers do not have a great track record.'
Mark Brown, via The National
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Donald Trump receiving applause after his speech this week in the Knesset, Israel's parliament
October 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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johnswinney.bsky.social
I’m in Zambia, where I’m seeing first hand the impact of 20 years of partnership and friendship between our countries.

Scotland is proud to play our part in the world and support many life-saving development projects - showing the kind of country we can be on the world stage.
October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM