Pines and the castle, Loch an Eilein, Strathspey
This is surely one of the most-photographed places in Strathspey, with good reason! It changes so much from moment to moment with the play of light on the water and the changes in weather. I liked it yesterday with this slight mistiness to the air, and a faint glow from the indirect sunlight. The distant birch on the far hillside are turning colour, showing strongly against the pine.
The castle ruin is nearly invisible through the screen of trees on the island, but it is there!
I really liked this quote. One day everything will resolve and there you are – enlightenment!
“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.
I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”
– Donald Miller, ‘Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality’