It's no surprise that I started off this blog a few years back with 'le grand boucle' between Croy and Lenzie (via paradise). There's something about the route up into the Campsie Fells (here, the Tak Ma Doon drove road) from Kilsyth that inspires and motivates, and moves. I never knew about this road until my brother did it and told me about it (way back in 2010 I think). Since then, it has been an annual pilgrimage, not just around the Carron Valley but straight through to Stirling (on the backroad to Bannockburn). It is a route that I travel a few times each year simply for its immensity of vegetable serenity. I have yet to encounter a more tranquil path into the hills.
The plateau of the immense...
Just over there, in the Lewis cliffs behind North Third Reservoir, is where Alejandro González Iñárritu filmed 'The Revenant' (ahem)....
The revenant (the white man after winter) by the Bannock Burn...
The train station, the Ochils, and some domesticated grizzlies in Stirling....
CROY TO STIRLING VIA LANIAKEA
It’s not possible to put into words
the three hours
from ten to one
this blustery January morning
penetrating the horizon
beyond the horizontal
dissolving body, melding Mind
flowing flowering cycling
breathing flying landing
(God is a verb didn’t you know?)
seeing the valley from space
through the fells and falls of the cosmos
only one word,
perhaps
the only word:
Laniakea
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