Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Friday, May 11, 2018

"Be Mind Full": Cawdor Castle Motto

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Monday, April 2, 2018

Catch-and-Release

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Odd sensory memories surfacing from 2016 while I was working through a stack or two of paperwork: a rat so very gingerly swimming past m...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Wistful about Orkney Diving

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I'm missing Scotland and wishing that I'd been in good enough shape to dive the Scapa Flow in Orkney last summer.  I was there, but ...
Saturday, December 2, 2017

Hornblower: Dunkeld

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Dunkeld: Scotland. Summer 2017--------on the banks of the River Tay.
Monday, August 7, 2017

I'm Reminded of Scottish Cattle

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A herd of sea palms.
Sunday, July 9, 2017

By Tooth and By Thorn

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Mementos from Scotland.
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

The Superior View

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Street shots: Last evening in Edinburgh. Just looking about.

Viking Remnants

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Thorfinn was here. The Brough of Birsay, Orkney.
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Profile Pics: 5 + 6

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Stromness Shots

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That's a two-way street, by the way. Motorists are very accommodating of each other in Orkney in particular ...

Orkney Kine

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Orkney kine are not the hairy, furry Scottish cattle that one expects.  They are multicolored, or of various colors, not the ruddy shade you...

Abbey Vista

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Jedburgh Abbey.

Blackness Castle

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Friday, October 28, 2016

Arthur's Seat--And The View

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Summer 2016
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

McIlvanney: "The Language of My Living"

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Here's a passage from one of William McIlvanney's novels that I've always liked.  The juxtaposition of humility and arrogance, t...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Edinburgh Light

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Edinburgh was a bit of a puzzle for me, and it still is in terms of balancing or juggling what I like and don’t like about the cit...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Reading Fritz Leiber: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser on the Royal Mile

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Fritz Leiber and his The Swords of Lankhmar  (1968) proved to be my boon companion during my recent European vacation.  I'd packed a ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Signal Phrase

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On Loch Lomond.
Sunday, January 6, 2013

Macbeth Underwater

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I'm trying to cut back on my book-buying, so about an hour ago I was faced with a dilemma. In my right hand, I was holding Antonia Frase...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

"The Music of the Seals"

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The seals are very fond of music.  Everywhere I went people told me that, but I was never fortunate enough to hear first hand the music...