Scotland Wildflowers – Culloden
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Scotland – Around Inverness: Culloden Battlefield, Clava Cairns and Cawdor Castle
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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Garden Notes
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
Scotland – Stirling Castle, Stirling
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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Scotland Wildflowers – Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
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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Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments – T. L. Huchu
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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Scotland – Edinburgh
We are back from two weeks in Scotland, so plenty of pictures are forthcoming. We arrived on Tuesday the 27th, but we were visiting a friend in Edinburgh, so the actual touristing didn’t start until Wednesday. Naturally, we hit the Royal Mile first. Since I can’t resist a good cathedral, here are some highlights of
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Garden Notes
The dahlias are out of the greenhouse, and I’ve switched it over to the net covering, and put that over the brassicas. It’s a bit big for the space, but it’s tall enough, so we’ll see how it goes this year. The bottom doesn’t have a complete seal, so I’ve piled up the straw at