Art - Current Project 27 John Street Cellardyke

90% complete.

The view is tremendous.
The kitchen sublime.
The steel bookcases filled.
Will show in next post.

27 John Street.

 Bulthaup kitchen works so very well.

The Firth of Forth. 

Art - Kellie Garden, Fife Scotland Spring 2016

Kellie Castle in the spring. Hundreds of daffodils everywhere...lining the drive, in the field, in a circle round the walled garden. 
Still cold, but utterly lovely with yellow against the green hills and fields. 

 The rooks make their nests in the trees and call wild to each other constantly. 

Apple trees about to bloom.

The most lived in castle, the exciting Kellie Castle and garden, part of the National Trust. 

http://www.nts.org.uk/Property/Kellie-Castle-and-Garden/ 

Art - Kellie Castle & Garden, Pittenweem, Scotland

 Having escaped alterations made to the great houses in the nineteenth century, Kellie Castle - which dates from 1150 - flourishes intact as part of The National Trust of Scotland.

The arts and crafts garden is well cared for and remains a great house to tour, a place for artists to create and musicians to play.

 The garden cottage where fruit & veg is harvested each Tuesday.

 It's magnificent plaster ceilings were designed by Scottish architect Sir Robert Lorimer, son of Professor James Allan Lorimer, a prominent Edinburgh University Professor of Public and International Law as a holiday home for his wife Hannah,  and their six children - James, John Henry, Hannah, Alice, Louise and Robert.

 The brilliant drawing room kept much the way it was when the Lorimer family lived there.

Hew Lorimer's studio.

 http://www.nts.org.uk/Property/Kellie-Castle-and-Garden/

Art - Current Project 27 John Street Cellardyke, Scotland

Shutters painted earth red, floor laid, all inside is the south facing view and the constant action movie of the Firth of Forth.

Steel ladder to the loft, steel staircase to the floor below with bath and bedrooms.  

 Ash floor being laid.

Final list to check off and clean up about to happen. 

Design by American FAIA architect Thomas H. Blurock. 



http://tblurock.net/www.tblurock.net/Projects/Projects.html

Art - Current Project - 27 John Street Kitchen - Cellardyke, Scotland

Bulthaup B1 kitchen installed. All white.
Simple look for the wee house. Generous window to the Firth of Forth.

Next: steel ladders & the floors.

Art - Mother Nature

Roses straight from the garden. 

Food - Lunch at Craig Millar - St. Monans, Scotland

Want a great lunch? Here in the East Neuk we not only celebrate events, but we eat Saturday lunch at Craig Millar because it's just. so. Good.

 Begin with 44 degree Shetland Salmon - miso caramel, oyster and parsley sauce.

 Continue with Cod - butterbeans, spinach, spiced langoustine bisque.

Finish with
Panna Cotta - apple puree, caramel ice cream.

All made in house. All created by Craig Millar, the man with the inventive mind, the luxurious taste buds.

Have this Saturday lunch while you gaze at the weather movie going on outside, The Firth of Forth and The Bass Rock emerging from the storm.

2 AA Rosettes.

16westend.com

Sublime. 

Art - Current Project - 27 John Street Cellardyke, Scotland

27 John Street

There is John Street and James Street, and then of course George Street. All the houses are built tight into the winding narrow passage. Number 27 is one of the few with a stairway, and like a Haiku, so small they constitute one mighty move. This move will be to blow open the view to the Firth of Forth: 2 floors, a loft and a Bulthaup kitchen.

The living floor from the front door before the wall is blown out....from the Front Door - it is small.

The Forth is calm, for the moment. It's said one's neighbors begin calling up the street as the dolphins move west. 

Bed and bath level with fireplace for Danish wood burning stove.

Space for office looking over the Forth.

Area to the left will be main bath.

Wall gone.

View back from the garden.

The "wee hoose" from the beach in the village of Cellardyke, another brilliant spot in the East Neuk of Fife.

Autumn 2015 in The East Neuk of Fife

From  the Firth of Forth to the Firth of Tay lies the Kingdom of Fife, an arm of Scotland that juts into the North Sea. The East Neuk is lowland with small hills that make it easy to see great distances.

The A917, a two lane road, runs a ribbon east-west through the coastal villages of Elie, St. Monans, Pittenweem, Anstruther and Crail to the eastern point of the Balcomie links. A footpath links the villages.

Before I begin on the new cottage, the new library, the new life, I'll set the scene:

Here is Pittenweem Harbor, the village where I am staying, the shore with the tide in, the taste of what Autumn looks like through the trees on the road to St. Andrews, the home of golf and the St. Andrews University where Prince William and Kate Middleton met...but I'll get to that later.

To live through Autumn, as the light changes and the night comes earlier, as the temperature cools considerably, is a glorious childhood memory, something real and ever changing...daily...

as if God's paintbrush was flicked over the hills and left yellow, orange, gold and red in watercolor and dabbed, smeared and brushed into shape.