Garleton Hills

Yesterday as it was a reasonably clear day I went walking with my friends on the Garleton Hills just north of Haddington. It's some years since we have been up there and we were amazed just how badly the trees had suffered in wind and storms. Most of the trees up there are fairly windblown in any case but some had been hit by lightning. If you look closely as the nearest tree in this group you will see the the lighting had burnt out the whole of the centre of the trunk and there burnt out holes where some of the branches used to be. The monument in the distance is the Hopetoun Monument whose inscription reads as follows - "This monument was erected to the memory of the Great and Good John, Fourth Earl of Hopetoun by his affectionate and grateful tenantry in East Lothian. MDCCCXXIV"