In May of last year, I posted some photographs and information, which I won’t repeat here, about Hollybush House and Estate in Ayrshire. I’ll just publish my photographs.

The walk down to the River Doon is through deciduous woodland.

The walk up the Doon shows it in a variety of different guises within a very short distance.

I’ve absolutely no idea why this intricately carved stone sits close to the river.

Another view of the rolling cultivated land in Ayrshire.

Today there are pictures of the River Doon, the inspiration for Robert Burns with ‘Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonnie Doon’.

This set of photographs were taken from the highest point on the old Brig O’Doon, built in the 15th Century.

The first photograph is looking downstream past the Brig O’Doon House Hotel, to the new Brig O’Doon – built in 1816 – and beyond it the ornate bridge of the Turnberry light railway.

The second photograph looks upstream towards the ‘Dutch’ mill, now residential properties.

The third photograph is down into the hotel grounds and shows three of the guests at one of the many weddings held there.

… or rather photographs taken at it’s its* mouth on Monday 5th January 2009.

* I’ve just had my fingers rapped for using the apostrophe – it seems the only time that ‘it’s’ should be used is when the meaning is ‘it is’; one continues to learn!

Two shots of Dalrymple Church looking from the North West to South East.

You’ll note the river running through the bottom right of the second picture. That is the River Doon and here’s a rather closer picture of it.

A nice easy misplaced quote in the title – especially if you remember what day yesterday was!

We’re looking out from Ayr Beach at the mouth of the Doon past Greenan Castle and the Heads of Ayr.

After the rain we’ve had, the River Doon is running as high as I’ve ever seen it.

The building in the centre is the Brig o’Doon House Hotel with the main window of the function suite (I won’t shock you with the minimum cost of a wedding there) showing.

The partial building you can see in the top right is the Burns Monument in Alloway.

……….. or in this case, anything but.

I took this picture outside the Brig O’Doon House Hotel just after a night of heavy rain. This stretch of the river is just visible in some of the earlier photos of the River Doon taken upstream from the railway bridge.

The river is not as calm and gentle as it was then!

A little pun as well as a photograph today. This is taken from the opposite side of the bridge from yesterday’s photograph, so we’re looking down (colloquially doon)Doon River.

Whilst I was taking the photos of the village of Dalrymple, I also took these photographs of the river Doon from the bridge at the edge of the village.

Looking upstream:

Looking downstream: