The Isle of Jura Distillery is running a photography competition with some very attractive prices, including a trip to Jura, Olympus camera’s and much more. All you have to do is upload your favourite Jura picture and add a wee bit of text. You shouldn’t wait too long, the competition closes tonight. I have uploaded [...]
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January 8 2011
Jura House Walled Garden Image Gallery
During our last trip to Jura, in May 2010, we had beautiful weather and on such lovely spring days a visit to Jura House Gardens on the Ardfin Estate is highly recommended. When the Campbells of Jura built Jura House and its adjacent walled garden, they picked a lovely spot on its south shore with [...]
February 28 2010
Isle of Jura Winter Scenes
The winter in this part of Scotland has been unusually cold with many days of snow and frosty nights. The gales that usually batter the island in the winter took a detour and what was left were a lot of sunny and crisp winter days. The Paps of Jura have been covered in snow for [...]
October 26 2009
Jura Paupers Houses
A while back Gavin pointed out a beautiful collection of old Jura images and when I revisited the site I had a closer look at images from Knockrome and Ardfernal. One of the images that raised my interest was a very old one of the Paupers’ Houses dating back 1901. Let me first show you [...]
October 19 2009
Old Jura Estate Images
There are quite a few resources available online where you can find images of days gone by as well as old postcards. A good example is the post I wrote in January called Jura in the old days. In that post I referred to a website that holds a large gallery of images from people [...]
October 13 2009
Jura Cromie Stag
When Teresa Morris of Islay Wildscapes sent me the images of the Red Deer Rut on Jura she told me there were some special images of a Cromie Stag. I have done some research on the internet and came up with a fascinating chapter from a book called “The Deer Forests Of Scotland”. This book, [...]
October 12 2009
Craighouse Jura in 1817 from the Canmore Database
I’m a big fan of old images and postcards and one of the best resources comes from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). It’s a mouth full, I know, but there is lots to be found as well. The site has several collections and the one I’m most fascinated [...]
October 11 2009
Autumn on Jura – Red Deer Rut
When the days get shorter and the temperatures sink, and when autumn paints the bracken on the hills brown, the red deer rut starts. The rut is a period when the biggest and strongest male (stag) rounds up a group of females (hinds) for mating. Of course every other male deer wants to do the [...]
April 28 2009
Isle of Jura Panorama Pictures
I have changed the layout of the Jura website last week and it now matches the Islay website although the colours are somewhat different. Together with the change in layout I decided to create a new page that contains the panorama images I have from Jura. There are now eight beautiful panorama images online and [...]
January 18 2009
Jura in the Old Days
Gavin, a reader of the Jura Blog, sent me a link to a remarkable Jura related website which turned out to be a highly interesting resource. The website is hosted at rootsweb and is a treat for genealogists and others. The pages are created by Susan M. Rumble and are about her family tree which [...]
