The View from the Window

The day started dry and bright so we opened the living room window in the flat wide to the wall and took some photos of the views. All week on the high tide we could sit in the living room and watch gannets diving, shore birds wading and waiting, and yachts and boats sailing up and down the Kyles. It is a view I could sit and look at for a very long time. Not for the first time over the years we found ourselves looking at for sale signs on flats and houses as we walked through the villages.

Late morning we drove round to Glendaruel and visited Kilmodan church. In a small shelter there are nine late-medieval West Highland grave-slabs and one post-Reformation grave-slab (dated 1636). The nine late-medieval grave-slabs, though worn, are decorated with carvings. These include beasts, swords, a deer hunt, a unicorn, and craftsmen’s tools such as blacksmith’s tongs. There are also effigies of two armed warriors, a cleric depicted in prayer, and a lady holding a rosary. All but one of these slabs are thought to be products of the Loch Awe ‘school’ of stone carvers, whose output was confined to Mid-Argyll, Lorn and Cowal. The largest single collection of the Loch Awe ‘school’ can be found at Kilmartin Church in mid Argyll.

From Glendaruel we drove round towards Colintraive to visit the Sculpture Park ... which we found didn't open on a Wednesday!

Back to Tignabruaich for a walk, and of course later in the evening we persuaded Maeve the Deerhound to come for another walk along to Blair's Ferry.

Extra images are one more Kyles view, grave slabs, and Kilmodan church.