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Caption: nine #stellerwalk
Caption: I've fallen behind with #seewhatisee - this is week nine, which I should have shared last week, but things kept getting in the way. And in editing these photos I was conscious that I'd taken shot after shot of woods, of trees. How many photos of trees can you share?
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Caption: But I was inspired by a story published a few weeks ago by @amjbarnesy - a story called Winter Wood about a woodland walk in the most beautiful light. I viewed Adam's story while sitting at my desk, and it was just what I needed to see when stuck in the city, wishing I could escape into nature.
This story doesn't have such beautiful light I'm afraid. We had two woodland walks and two beach walks over two days. Think cool grey light and cold, cold days.
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Caption: On Saturday we went to Tyninghame. I've shared this walk before, but it's always different - with the season, with the light. This still felt like a winter walk. Spring hadn't quite arrived.
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Caption: Leaving the woods behind and arriving on Ravensheugh Beach.
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Caption: I am always drawn
to photograph
these rocks.
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Caption: We turned off the beach and walked up into the trees to see the Log Cabin. The cabin sits above the beach with the most incredible views towards the Bass Rock and across the Firth of Forth. The 12th Earl of Haddington (the father of the present Earl) arranged for this cabin to be built here in 1960 in the style of a traditional Canadian beach log cabin - to remind his wife of her native Canada.
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Caption: You can now book the Log Cabin as a venue. We've seen wedding receptions being held here on a few visits to Ravensheugh Beach - and have always thought it was the most amazing location for this.
(Yes, I'd love to see inside!)
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Caption: Walking back through the trees below the Log Cabin, you'll come across the giant hulking concrete blocks that snake through the woods. They look like some sort of strange installation, perhaps a statement about man's encroachment on nature.
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Caption: These are actually anti-tank blocks and were constructed here as part of the coastal defences during WW2.
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Caption: On Sunday we went to Yellowcraig, our most regular woodland and beach walk in East Lothian. A place to exhale out the week. To recharge for the new week ahead.
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Caption: Thank you for reading #stelleruk