#the kelpies

[palaeoplushies]

Eat the Sun

The Kelpies, Falkirk, 25th April 2023

[corpyburd]

The Kelpies in a haar - photographed by Adam Bulley

[dopescissorscashwagon]

A double rainbow over The Kelpies at the Helix Park in Falkirk yesterday evening 😍 3/29/24

📸 by The Kilted Photographer @TheKiltedPhoto

[tommydashwood]

[prueshy]

Photos of one of The Kelpies - UK

Taken by PrueShy 

[millerdoc]

Went to visit the Kelpies today.

[spiced-wine-fic]

The Kelpies, Scotland, photographed in a storm.

[scotianostra]

Falkirk then and now.........

As I mentioned earlier, a perspective of Falkirk  from a distance.

I found the old pic on Falkirk.gov, it's not dated, but it reminded me of a few pics I took in March last year, I know it's not an exact match, my pic was from above the High Station, but it gives you an idea of how the town has grown............

[jxy1]

The Scottish Kelpies at night 🐴

[richflintphoto]

The Horses of The Helix

The Kelpies If you drive along the Mp heading towards Stirling then there is a good chance that you will see the magnificent sculptures that are the Kelpies. For many years the 30-metre-high sculptures were a visual treat as the car headed up to the Highlands. It was a location that you always wanted to visit but somehow never managed to set as a destination. That was until last year when an…

[anxiouslyfred]

Be careful when facing kelpies. They seldom judge kindly.

Then again that could just be judging us for not calling them the artist’s preferred name for his artwork of the Clydesdales

[grimini]

[sanctus-ingenium]

A certain fisherman [...] went to the same place again to fish, and he put a row of hooks on his heels in case he met the Púca again; he attached them like a horseman's spurs. When evening drew near, he made a halter of the fishing-line for the Púca. The Púca met him the second time. He himself caught the Púca, put the fishing-line over his head like a halter, and started to ride him. He drove him wherever he wanted to go, and he kept putting his heels with the hooks like spurs to the Púca's sides, so that the Púca was shedding blood from the pricks of the hooks.

Excerpt from "The Púca: A Multi-Functional Irish Supernatural Entity" by Deasún Breatnach

buy a print of this piece here :>

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Kelpie by Herbert James Draper (1913)

[studio1one]

The Kelpies are a monument to horse-powered heritage across Scotland. The Kelpies in Falkirk. The sculptures were opened to the public in April 2014.

[astravis]

@ecto-implosion has been SO fun and I'm happy to reveal the little comic I made for it! Endless thanks to my fabulous partner @anguishedlurker for writing such an excellent fic for this :D

You can read it on AO3 here :D (There's some bonus doodles here too!)