Notes on preparation, judgment, changing weather, harvest landscapes and the craft of private guiding across Scotland.
Moving steadily from digital consulting toward a guide-led life in Scotland: outdoors, in cities, on roads I know well, and bringing together a love of place, history and people.
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A note from Ross on a group visiting from Argentina, an unexpected song, a street detail, changing weather and the judgement behind a guided day.
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A note from Ross on Carter Bar, Jedburgh, family memory, Perthshire, Leith, old books and the preparation behind professional guiding.
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Festival streets, St Andrews, the Pentland Hills and a month of seeing familiar places differently through visitors' questions.
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Guiding, studying and watching the season change: autumn in Falkland, Cupar, St Andrews, Dundee and Perth, reflections on private guiding, and gifts that start stories.
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Barley, oats, cut fields and the stories that begin to appear when September changes the agricultural landscape of Fife.
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Frost on Glen Etive, stags on the hill, geese gathering at Loch Leven and lights at the door: October changes the pace of Scotland as the countryside slows and the nights draw in.
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