Piping the sun down from the top of the world

Every night from May 1 through September 30, I will be piping the sun down at the Golf Club at Newcastle. This will be my sixth summer as the Resident Piper for the Golf Club at Newcastle. The club is open to the public--not a private course--so come up for dinner or drink out on the terrace, or just to walk around and enjoy the incredible view while I play. Thanks to Richard Williams for this photo, taken May 3, 2009. Trust me, the sunsets become much more colorful than this and are always different.

Ode to a Golf Course Piper

So I'm poking around the web today, really using my time wisely, and what do I find? A poem inspired by a photo of me on Flickr.com.

Ode to a Golf Course Piper

Do they pipe the golfers home at dusk?
Peculiar spot in which to busk...
Might he appear
But once a year,
An apparition of rarer sort
With affinity for fields of sport?

O, Yon Solitary Golf Course Piper!

May you skirl from tee to tee
With droning highland majesty
Ever held in thundry awe
By all and sundry.

Slàinte mhath! (which is Gaelic for "Good Health")

Pretty dang cool, I thought!