St Andrews on St Patrick's Day North Fife

St Andrews Castle at low tide.

St Andrews Harbour, working boats mainly for crabs.

Meanwhile over the seawall another fisher is at work.

Ready to pounce.

What looked to be like a school visit from afar to St Andrews being piped along the quay.

I couldn't do a post without a shot of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club House

Newburgh March 12th & 14th North Fife

Sundown March 12th Newburgh.

Low water riverside Newburgh North Fife, thick rich mud in slack water.

View over Mugdrum Island and reed beds.

Pinkfoot Geese enjoying winter sown barley at Logie Farm North Fife.

Tayview 10th & 11th March North Fife

Pinkfoot Geese milling about over the river Tay on the 10 March.

Tayview 11th March a wonderful sunny day, warm too.

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Tayviews 4th March North Fife

Cloud blanket over Dundee and The River Tay 4th march.

Looking to the West, another glorious sunset, the adage "red sky at night shepherds delight" rings true, today was a wonderful sunlit day with only occasional cloudiness. The solar panels on the roof earned £6-64, saved 7.831 kg of carbon emission through production of 15.356 kWh of free electricity.

Phones4u St andrews North Fife

I had time to kill in St Andrews and wandered about noticing the throngs of visitors of many nationalities some of whom will have been students at the world famous university. Popped into this shop for a gander.

Phones4u shop St Andrews at 114, Market street,KY16 9PB.

Approached by a delightful lass Zara Duthie who went through her sales pitch which took into account of my phone and internet connectivity requirements.

Zara looking happy having made a sale.

Samsung Galaxy S5830GSM all singing/dancing smart phone using Android operating system is what I walked away with. It remains to be seen whether this was wise decision.

His Holiness 17th Karmapa performs the "Go-Ma" sacred Dance.

His Holiness Karmapa performed the "Go-Ma" sacred Dance during "Gutor" events in Bodhgaya, India on February 20th.

The Black Hat dance is an elaborate ritual that took many days to perform in Tibet. The purpose of the ritual is to eliminate the obstacles, which in the individual are the afflictive emotions and misconceptions that cause sufferings. At the beginning of the dance, the Black Hat Dancers make symbolic offerings of Gold Libation (tea) to the lineage Lamas, Tutelary deities (different forms of the Buddha) and Dharmapalas (truth protectors), in order to please them and receive their blessings.
As stated in the Vinaya, code of monastic ethics, the robes of ordination serve as a reminder that the person wearing them is fully ordained monk. In a similar manner, the Black Hat costume is worn by some Tantric practitioners to maintain the clarity and pride of arising in the wrathful aspect of a tantric deity. This divine confidence or pride serves a special funtion for the exclusive path of Tantra. The Black Hat dancers apply protective substances on their cheeks and forehead which give them the wrathful appearance of wrath. They exhibit this fierce aspect in order to tame the minds of sentient beings afflicted by such negative emotions of hatred, greed, and ignorance. They are not motivated by anger, but by the supreme love and compassion.

Toads North Fife 2012

Toads North Fife. About 25 years ago I created a garden pond that fills naturally from ground water. Frogs, Toads, Newts breed in abundance, as a consequence when the humidity and temperature are right at this time of the year, first toads appear littering the roadway, making their way to where they were born. Not the quickest of creatures many get squashed by passing traffic. The mating imperative springs into action with much croaking. I can feel the sap rising too.

A large female toad with a male suitor firmly attached quickly followed by another with 3 frustrated others, see below. Rampant wee beasties.

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North Fife Tuesday 21st February 2012

The sky from between Brunton and Luthrie 21st February, soft cloud forms with leafless beech trees silhouetted, 5-30pm and getting dark.

Meanwhile below fertilizer being spread on the winter sown grain. Rural life goes on come rain or shine.

North Fife Tuesday 21st February

North Fife Tuesday 21st February, temperature about 10c and humidity having doubled overnight, misty with light rain and as I drove along an incipient rainbow was forming. Waiting for a good composition to emerge and 4 miles down the road it all disappeared. There's nothing quite like chasing rainbows.