It looks like spring in Edinburgh in this photo. Wish I were there!!! via
Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
Paul and Linda McCartney - Heart of the Country
Here is another delightful music video with footage of Paul and Linda McCartney doing what they did best.
Heart of the Country. Click here if you can't see the video.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Scottish Garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay
The Little Sparta Trust Website
‘Little Sparta’ a garden created by the collaboration of poet and artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Sue Finley, his wife. Based on the idea that a garden is a place for poetry, philosophy, and political thought, words are carved on stone and wood, etc. throughout the garden. It is thought by some to be Scotland’s greatest contemporary work of art. Located near Edinburgh in Dunsyre. source
Miniature Portrait of A Dog
On display in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. I'm not sure if it's a miniature on ivory or a micro mosaic. I want it....badly! via
Friday, January 20, 2012
A Dusting of Snow in Scotland
I fully expected to wake up to a dusting of snow this morning but the weather report turned out to be much ado about nothing. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining one bit. This probably isn't snow in Scotland either, but a heavy frost. See you later. via
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Antique Tartanware from Scotland
I have only owned a few pieces of Tartanware in my lifetime of collecting. I would love to have a grouping like this one to decorate my slant-front desk, wouldn't you. via
Friday, December 9, 2011
The Queen Mum at Birkhall - Scotland
Times spent at Birkhall were relaxed and informal. In her late years the Queen Mum (1900-2002) enjoyed sitting with her corgis and admiring the views of her magnificent sunken garden. She was 99 in this photo.
Birkhall is an early Georgian house that was the favorite holiday home of the Queen Mother, where she and her husband (pictured below) would bring the young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.
Vanity Fair Men of the Day caricature prints circa 1890 line the staircase wall. They are often called Spy Prints.
The hallway barometer was checked every morning by house guests in anticipation of fishing and other outdoor pursuits and the daily picnic. Lunch, their hostess would explain, is not a meal to be eaten indoors.
The walls are papered in Royal Stewart tartan and carpeted in a Hunting Stewart plaid. This is where the Queen Mum hung her pale blue gardening coats. Dog bowls and dishes and towels were always handy for the beloved corgis.
The walls are papered in Royal Stewart tartan and carpeted in a Hunting Stewart plaid. This is where the Queen Mum hung her pale blue gardening coats. Dog bowls and dishes and towels were always handy for the beloved corgis.
I found an old (1999) Country Homes & Interiors booklet I picked up on my last visit to England of the 20th century. It was devoted to 7 Royal Homes and Gardens. I'll share more with you from time to time. I used my iPhone to reproduce the photos from the booklet.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Beautiful Beach Day in Scotland
A beautiful day at Yellowcraigs Beach in East Lothian Scotland photographed by © David Ross
I never think of good weather when I think of Scotland, do you? I always think of cold, windy moors and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Two Cats in Edinburgh
You have to look closely to convince yourself this is not the same cat in two different locations. I guess they can go outside at will through the broken window pane. Nice.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Modern Farmhouse built around ruins in Scotland
In Scotland, a Modern Farmhouse Rises From Ruins. A house on the tiny Isle of Coll was built on the remains of one abandoned 150 years earlier. The home is on one of a group of islands known as the Inner Hebrides that has a population of about 200. Constructed on sand, it was abandoned in the mid-1800s when large cracks began to appear in the structure. View the New York Times Slideshow. Read the related article "Warm Respect for a Scottish Ruin"
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Loch Lomond, Scotland
"Oh! ye'll take the high road and
I'll take the low road and
I'll be in Scotland afore ye."
(Hear here -- music, lyrics and bagpipes)
View from the high road 'Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond' Scotland via National Geographic.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Balbegno Castle | UK Scotland | Wellies Provided
Monday, November 22, 2010
Reflection in the Loch, Scotland
An absolutely amazing reflection captured by ©Russell Snowden. My favorite armchair travel photo of the day.
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Balvaird Castle in Scotland
Balvaird Castle in Scotland photographed by ©Simon Mayson via Flickr. Wonder if it's haunted?
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Iveraray Castle, Scotland
Iveraray Castle, Scotland a magnificent Scottish castle and ancestral home of the Duke of Argyll provides a unique Scottish visitor experience. The Castle is a remarkable and unique piece of architecture incorporating Baroque, Palladian and Gothic ... read more When shall we leave?
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Library at Dunrobin Castle In Scotland
The 189-room Dunrobin Castle has been home to the dukes of Sutherland for over 800 years. The sycamore paneled library was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer, a noted Scottish architect, from spaces formerly used as a bedroom and a dressing room. There are over ten thousand books, many of them relating to Scots law and to nineteenth-century Highland development.
I photographed the first two pictures from one of my architectural books. The third photo is from Wikipedia.
I'll copy a bit of the castle's description from my 1990 book: "Dunrobin Castle is the largest house in the Northern Highlands of Scotland, and is the seat of the Countess of Sutherland. Parts of the castle date from the early 1400s, but it is the early-nineteenth-century Clearances, during which five thousand people were removed from Sutherland lands, that made the estate notorious. This mass eviction of small subsistence farmers appalled some Scottish journalists because of the lack of publicity that attended it."
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