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F. E. Clark
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I live in Scotland, paint, write, take photos. I love books, music, and walking in the hills. BIFFY50 2020. Noms: Best Microfiction, Best Small Fiction, 2 x Best of the Net, 3 x Pushcart. #FromMyWalk #amquerying. **I can't see or reply to DMs**
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#FromMyWalk today: ghost wood at sunset. Warm. Slow walking. Still in the in-between.
#photography #diary #Scotland #walk100miles
A landscape photograph near sunset. The sky is golden yellow, mid distance a stand of trees in silhouette, with mist swirling about them. Foreground dark bushes.
November 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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#FromMyWalk today: spider's web on an angelica seed head that looks like it might itself be made of spiders ! Finished walk in the haar fog and rain, the world all muffled, brain full old "stuff".
#Photography #Diary #Scotland #Walking
A close up photo of an autumnal seed head, it is dark brown and has stalks radiating out from its stem, each stalk has a small spider like seed head at the end. The whole thing is laced with a white spider's web.
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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More from visit to Modern One in Edinburgh: Artist by Alison Watt; Everything Is Going To Be Alright by Martin Creed; Spider by Louise Bourgeois; Self-Portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe.
#Edinburgh #Diary #Photography #Scotland
A painting in a dark brown frame of a person with their hand over their forehead. The front of a grand building with six columns at the front, over the columns a blue neon sign reads, EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT Looking up at a black spider on a white wall, its shadow makes an interesting shape underneath it. A black and white photograph of a young man wearing a leather jacket, his dark hair curls down over his forehead and he has a lit cigarette in his mouth.
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Enjoyed visiting Helen Chadwick's work in Artists Rooms at Modern One in Edinburgh: Self Portrait; Loop My Loop; Piss Flowers. I remember when I first heard about these pieces, a long time ago now; glad to finally see them 🖤
#Art #HelenChadwick #Edinburgh #Scotland #Diary #Photography
An oval shaped, back lit photograph showing a brain held between two hands. Loops of intestine with hair woven around them, held on a wooden backboard. A white, cast, eruption like flower shape.
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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#FromMyWalk today: kingfisher; burn; the light through the trees.
#Photography #Diary #walk1000miles #Scotland
A wooden sculpture of a Kingfisher, a bird with a sharp pointed beak Image of water in a burn, a small river, dark brown with blue of reflected sky White light shining through yellow autumnal leaves, dark tree trunks, russet leaves on the ground.
November 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Wool Runner; Sheep Paintings; Dock Stocks; Fence - all by Anthony Goldsworthy. Delighted to catch this exhibition of 50 years of Goldsworthy's work at the RSA in Edinburgh before it closes on 2nd Nov. #AndyGoldsworthy #art #landart #Scotland
An off white runner going up the centre of two grand flights of stairs, there are yellow, red, green, and blue marks on it A white circle left where a sheep feeder was placed The centre of a radiating star of dock leaves Close up of barbed wire running horizontally across image, some of it is rusted some still galvanised grey.
November 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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#FromMyWalk yesterday: unplanned treat, by the Water of Leith - a piece by Antony Gormley and a yellow wagtail.
#Photography #Diary #Scotland
A sculpture of a man looking up, he is standing in water in the reflection of autumn trees and himself. An out of focus photograph of a bird with its tail wagging and its beak open, it is grey, yellow and white. The water is brown.
November 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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#FromMyWalk today: up the fields after sunset. Two hares, I felt the reverberations of their feet through the ground before I saw them, they were so big at first I thought they were dogs.
#Photography #diary #walk1000miles #Scotland
A landscape photo after sunset with just a band of gold behind the hills. Closest to the viewer the land is black, it lightens with each layer of distance. A hill in the mid distance has a tower on it, a tiny dark line in the photo. Grey blue cloud is pressing down on the top of the furthest hill.
October 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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#FromMyWalk today: a favourite tree. Broken yet still beautiful. Shriek of a jay in the broken wood that floods, in concert with the brakes of a pack of cyclists meeting a lorry at a bend on the road.
#photography #Diary #walk1000miles #Scotland
A rowan tree with red, green, russet foliage, one of its boughs on the right is broken and lying on stone dyke. Sheep in green fields behind. Beyond, on the purple hill a pylon is visible.
October 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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#FromMyWalk today: the path; the crying eye of a fallen tree.
#Photography #Diary #walk1000miles #Scotland
A path, russet brown with fallen leaves, between tall old trees, with green yellow, and brown foliage. A close up of rain water runnels down a circle marking on an old tree trunk. The wood is grey with white lichen and bright green moss.
October 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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#FromMyWalk today: marigold, mesh.
#Photography #Diary #walk1000miles #Scotland
A raggedy marigold plant with three half opened flowers and one fully opened flower, the most lovely colour of tangerine orange. An out of focus close up of water droplets on white plastic mesh in front of a green grass background
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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#FromMyWalk today: mist, mushroom.
#Photography #Diary #walk1000miles #Scotland
Mist lingering on a hillside. A red and white mushroom pushing up through the ground
October 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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#FromMyWalk today: water droplets on a blade of grass.
#Photography #Diary #walk100miles #Scotland
Silvery beads of water on a green blade of grass that curves up from the bottom left to the top right of the photograph.
October 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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#FromMyWalk today:
DANGER
Marshy
Ground
Potholes
#Photography #Diary #walk1000miles #Scotland
A battered old sign on a rusted grey pole, it reads, DANGER Marshy Ground Potholes. Green bracken grows at the foot of the sign, behind it moss on tree trunks, and some winter brown leaves.
October 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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#FromMyWalk today: a big stone, hidden in broken woods, near the top of a hill in Scotland. A brief glimpse of red deer through the trees. Yellow birch leaves fell, making the sound of rain on the path back.
#Photography #Diary #walk1000miles #Scotland
A big stone, covered in moss and pine needles, in a wood. The trees behind it are planted so close together that their branches are broken. The light is odd, green grey. The ground is soft, carpeted by moss and pine needles.
October 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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#FromMyWalk today: frozen in the undergrowth. Slowly, out along the river side path that crackles with shed acorns. Hills purple blue in the distance. A heron shrieking along the waterway.
#photography #diary #Scotland #walk1000miles
A small brown frog or toad, holds onto a brown leaf in the green undergrowth of grass, clover, plantain.
October 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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#FromMyWalk today: web. Cooler. Some sort of corvid malarkey was occurring beyond the wood that floods-- dispersed after a lot of cawing. Walked on my own, quietly through the 800th mile.
#Photography #diary #walk1000miles #Scotland
A photo of a spider's web, a horizontal plane down low in the undergrowth, anchored to blades of grass. Light sparkles on tiny droplets on the very fine strands.
October 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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#FromMyWalk today: out of focus, moving through, blinkers half on. Stench of death trailing from a passing falling stock lorry; incessant whine of chainsaws across the burn, beyond the broken ghost wood; a lone red kite floating overhead.
#photography #diary #Scotland #walk1000miles
An out of focus photograph. Sunlight through a single, horizontal blade of grass and a couple of half hidden yellow bramble leaves.
October 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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#FromMyWalk today: bright red berberis leaf. A cooler, dull day, with the sun coming out halfway through the walk. Wrens in the undergrowth, the shouting of workmen at the solar farm--just walking until done.
#photography #diary #walk1000miles #Scotland
A close up photo of a red leaf with chunks out of the edges, black marks and stem.
October 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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I've always loved accounts of explorers, adventures, and faraway places. I'm going to read this, maybe 10 pages at a time, it'll probably take me the rest of the year, perhaps longer...
'The Worst Journey in the World' by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #TheWorstJourneyInTheWorld
Photo of a book, cover up. The text in black reads THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD; white text on the blue of the sky reads - Vintage CHERRY-GARRARD, then in red text at the bottom To travel what War and Peace is to the novel...a masterpiece, New York Review of Books. The cover is mostly white with a central, uneven horizontal, black line halfway up, there is a split diagonal line that runs down from the central line, running up another black line ends with a figure, above the sky is ultramarine blue.
October 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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#FromMyWalk today: a bramble leaf buzzing with saturated colour in the dull morning light. Cooler. Forcing myself out to walk. Crows and magpies at war with a sparrow hawk.
#Walking #walk1000miles #photography #diary #Scotland
A close up photo of a leaf, slightly curled and ragged along the edges. Save a tiny bit of green near its stalk, it has turned colour and there are patches of wine, aubergine, pink, bright yellow and red.
October 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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#FromMyWalk this weekend: sunset behind us, the path back; curlew; heron; inland sunset. A short jaunt along the coast, lovely to get out and away for a couple of hours 🖤
#photography #diary #Scotland
Back lit by the setting sun, an uneven path runs along a stone shore. A wading bird with long legs and beak, standing at the edge of the sea on a pebble beach. A bird holding its wings down like a coat its about to pull on, standing on rocks, sea and sea spray behind. A few moments later it lifted its wings and flew off. Sunset inland, on the horizon the silhouette of a line of hedging or trees. The sky is metal gold darkening to almost black.
October 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Columbo-Cash
cool x cool
#amwatching
Lieutenant Columbo in his brown mac, facing off with Johnny Cash, who is dressed in black, and armed with crutch and guitar.
October 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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#FromMyWalk this evening: harvest moon rising
#photography #diary #Scotland #WritingCommunity
An unfocused blazed out shot - black in foreground, ultramarine blue above horizon, centre a flash of white yellow - the harvest moon rising up over the hill behind silhouettes of branches.
October 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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A treat to see 'North by East', an exhibition of work by Paul Furneaux at Drum Castle, and a lovely chat with the curator, Dorothy Williams. On until 2nd Nov, free to visit. Mr Furneaux is also doing a demo/talk about his work on Sat 18th Oct. Info below...
#Mokuhanga #Scotland #art
HAAR by Paul Furneaux. Four long narrow pieces covered with coloured mokuhanga paper, the pieces are shaped like long piano keys and the colours are different from each aspect they are viewed from. Indigo-Blue by Paul Furneaux. A framed piece, mustard, pink, indigo, black, pale blue colours of stripes, solid blocks of colour, and cloud and plant shapes. Fuji-San by Paul Furneaux. A framed piece, Mount Fuji with a silvery moon above its snow clad peak. Tokyo: Days, by Paul Furneaux. Two panels with off white, brown, orange and black colours, the orange/brown bleeds into the off white.
October 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM