Beach Art...

You find lots of stuff washed up on the coast, both man made and natural...

Artistic people make some cool stuff with it like this, these creations i call `Beach Art`...

-:)

Or use whats already there...

And some people like to draw on the sand...

We all leave tracks when were on sand...

Here is film of an artists work on the beach i would love to see on our coast in East Lothian...

Watch what this guy creates...

Sand Man...



More work here on Peter Donnelly

Time is nothing

Continuing some great films on Vimeo...

Time is Nothing // Around The World Time Lapse from Kien Lam on Vimeo.

11,11,11

This year November 11th falls on Remembrance Sunday...
Here in the UK we remember the sacrifices of service men and woman in past and present conflicts with 2 minutes silence at 11am...

Where ever you live here in the UK you are not far from a War Memorial...

Our cemeteries now have a sign at the entrance if they are the resting places of Commonwealth War Graves...

Many of these graves are young people who came from all around the Commonwealth to fight for our country and were killed here in the UK in training accidents, this loss of life seems even more tragic...

War graves at Dirleton cemetery of 20 servicemen killed here in East lothian in WW2...

Pilots killed in accidents while at RAF Drem nearby. Look at their ages...

British and Commonwealth soldiers lie buried all around the world from World War conflicts, far from their homes and families...

My Mums father - my bloodline Grandfather, was a Gordon Highlander and is buried at Venray War Cemetery near Arnhem in the Netherlands.
He was killed in 1944 during Operation `Market Garden`.

In August 2014  i hope to trace his journey by bicycle across Holland as the regiment fought to try and break through to the 1st Airborne Division who were encircled at Arnhem in 1944,

I want to tell my Grandfathers story and of his famous regiment and his friends who were so close to making it though the war, and payed the ultimate price for victory and freedom,
and to visit his grave at Venray on the 70th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden...

This Sunday i will visit more of the Commonwealth War Grave cemeteries like Dirleton in East lothian while out cycling and pay my respects to these servicemen who are buried here far from their homes and families...

Everyone seems to be so busy nowadays and wrapped up in their own lives,
Take the time to give these young people 2 minutes silence on Sunday no matter how busy you are with your life.


They gave a lot more so you could live the life you do here today in our country...



Here is an interesting story i came across on Vimeo...

Per Purum Tonantes from George Horne on Vimeo.

Mid Week beach ride - Gullane to North Berwick

After a lovely, if breezy days ride out to Aberlady Bay again today it was breezy but clear and sunny
12C, clear skies, strong westerly blowing in some surf, and amazing clarity and light,
Perfect Winter (Officially still Autumn) beach riding weather, joined today with friend Jason...

-:)

Blues Brothers are still in town...

Archiefield Estate...

 We spied this car with roof full of bikes...

Jaguar launched a new car last week here at Archiefield and they have been doing a bit of tyre shrieking around East Fortune Race Circuit and i have seen these Jaguar estate cars on the country roads around here...

But this one is a bit different,
It is a Tour of Britain Sky Team car, here for promotional purposes,
It impressed some of the local fat bike posse -:)

The estate here used to be all woodland before the vast clearing of trees for 3 Golf Courses and houses...
It had some huge woods, spooky places to be away from roads and houses/people.

A sign here today beside the lovely chalets...

Makes me remember the woods here we rode BMX`s through when at high school, no one around for miles.
Changed days here now... when once you could imagine finding a place like this here... -:)