Ruins

Today I took a trip to Loch Doon Castle in the Galloway Forest Park. I always feel right at home in old castles and ruins. It doesn't matter how ruined a building might be I just go exploring ... my imagination fills in the gaps! 

"The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather-beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well."
(Heinrich Heine)