I finally finished the body of the Trisha sweater. Thank all the gods the author uses a short row method so you can knit this on the inside, instead of having to purl the whole thing. I would not have survived that much purling. As it was, I did an entire Boreas chart in the […]
I have to give credit here to the Wild Mountain Garden at the base lodge at Cairngorm. Most of these flowers came from here. I took most of these pictures in the rain, because it was too good an opporunity to miss.
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For our next day, we headed over to the Cairngorm mountains. In Gaelic, this range is called Am Monadh Ruadh (the red mountains), and Cairn Gorm (blue hill) is the fifth highest peak. It’s a sky resort, and you can take the funicular up year round. You’re actually not allowed out on the mountain if
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For our first full day out of Inverness, we stopped by several fairly close sites. I really loved being in our own car – we got to explore a little more than the people in the tour buses. Culloden is the site of the last battlefield on British soil – the last battle for Bonnie
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The garden didn’t do too badly while I was gone. I enlisted my mother to come over and water. There were some nice sunny days, so some things grew in quite nicely. It hasn’t been warm enough for the peppers and basil to be thrilled, but they’re doing ok. I was pleasantly surprised by how
On our way up to Inverness, we stopped at Stirling Castle. Got there at opening, at which point it was pouring rain. This visit really was the perfect example of Scottish weather – by the time we left, it was gorgeously sunny. That’s probably best illustrated by the two pictures below, which are views of
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This is admittedly a very random place to be for an out of town visitor, but our friend works here, and knew about a trail that she knew would have wildflowers. (Isn’t it grand to have friends that look out for your interests?) And it’s the perfect distance away from the airport to be a
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When I was picking some plane reading, I remembered I had this book in a series set in Edinburgh. Sure, it’s an alternate history Edinburgh with magic, after some sort of catastrophe that’s set back the lives of a lot of the citizens, but it’s Edinburgh! (And fairly accurate from what I could tell after
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