A striking granite sculpture that is designed to draw attention to the landscape surrounding Corgarff. Artwork by Strathdon artist Louise Gardner. The work not only features engraved poetry, but also contains lenses that focus on points in the nearby landscape.The sculpture is located around halfway up the hill towards the Lecht ski centre. The dark circles are binocular lenses embedded in the granite. One points left to the castle; the other to the right up the glen. Carved into the stone are the following words:
Take a moment to behold,
As still skies or storms unfold,
In sun rain sleet or snow,
Warm your soul before you go.
Words which comment on the weather and the hills and the fact that people manage to survive there somehow.
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August 2023 we came with our Frogeye Sprite along the road. We hit a real porthole with the car. Stopped a moment to have a look if something has happended to the car.
On the road again there were some real slow motorhomes we can't overtake. So we parked for a while at the stone. We acted as the poem says. We behold (formore than) a moment after the incident and took a look on the landscape, the castle and had a word with other people there. Finally we got off in the rain just as the poem says.
Ragnar from Germany.
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