As soon as Ron and I saw the following hotel, we both recognized it as one of the places we stayed at several years ago on our trip to England with Mother and Steve and Joan. The two photos following that are showing across the road from the hotel.
Finally, we get to Scotland! 
The next photo shows a logging area.The light colored stripes are the logs laid in piles.
The next photos are of the Loch Lomond area. (This is where the McGregor clan, our way-back relatives, lived.) Loch Lomond is 24 miles long and from 3/4 to 5 miles wide. It has the largest surface area of all the lochs. The average depth is 120 ft., but there are places with a depth of 630 ft.
Maybe some of you have heard the old Scottish song about Loch Lomond:
"Oh, ye'll take the high road, and I'll take the low road,
And I'll be in Scotland afore ye;
But me and my true love will never meet again
On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond."
Tradition is that a Scottish soldier wrote this poem in a letter while awaiting death in captivity away from home. The "low road" is a reference to the Celtic belief that if someone died away from home, the fairies would dig a tunnel for his soul to return home. (from Wikipedia article)
This is just a photo of someone's backyard. I guess they do not have to mow grass!
4 comments:
Loch Lomond is so blue! That's a really cool picture you took of it...with the sail boat, the hills, the clouds, and the BLUE lake!
Beautiful pictures. Even though that hotel was old as most of them are there, they are always in beautiful settings. When I was reading about Loch Lomond, I was trying to think of the song. Then, you quoted it. Keep the pictures coming.
No more pictures of Scotland! It makes me want to go back. The Loch Lomond area was just breath-taking. Matt SO wanted to move into one of those little cottage homes there. (And may I recommend the movie "Rob Roy"? It is dated, but a good movie based on the most famous McGregor from Scotland.)
I remember that hotel!
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