Scotland Photos, 1983

[pameladlloyd]

Okay, this is the last set for now. I figured if I was going to post from our trip to the UK, I should include some pics from Scotland, as well. For some reason, I seem to have far more photos from Scotland than from Wales, possibly because we were nearing the end of our trip and I was trying to capture as much as I absolutely could.

	Highland Cattle on the Isle of Skye The Isle of Skye was really amazing. We took a ferry over from mainland Scotland and drove around on these little backcountry roads. The shaggy "longhorns" were quite a contrast to the Texas longhorns we were more familiar with.
	Ian in Eilean Donan Castle This was taken in Eilean Donan castle. That's Ian again, sitting on the wall. Don't worry, he's being very firmly held by his father, who was hiding behind the wall. The woman on the stairs behind is an unknown tourist.
	Ian in the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens The title says it all.
	Ian in St. Andrews Church Ian is sitting on a gravestone in the ruins of St. Andrews Church, in Scotland. We gave him an empty film canister to play with, because he kept trying to crawl away. The church is in ruins and much of the original stonework was carted away by locals to use for other building projects.
	Lighthouse in Scotland Uncertain exactly where this was taken, but it was while we were traveling in Scotland. Possibly, this is the West Coast, near the Isle of Skye.
	Ruins in Scotland Again, I'm not sure exactly where we were. As we traveled along the firths/lochs for much of our trip, the water is probably a loch, rather than ocean.
	Seagull in the Scottish Highlands My ex-husband, Richard W Powell, took the gull photos in 1983. We were driving southwest from Inverness along the firths & lochs, when near the center of Scotland we came across this gull, floating in the breeze, almost stationary.
	Seagull Closeup Here's a closeup of the seagull, as it was a bit hard to see in the original.
	Baby Sheep Following Mama Clearly, this is a fairly new baby, since it hasn't had a chance to dirty its coat, yet. :)

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Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! Is that heather they're browsing on in the first photo? I love the two of Ian :-)

And yes, lambs when their coats are all fresh are so sweet!

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! Is that heather they're browsing on in the first photo?

Thanks! I'm not sure. We didn't have a native guide, so mostly we just enjoyed the experience, even if we didn't always understand what we were seeing. *g*

I love the two of Ian :-)

Thank you, again. Me too. :-)

Of all the places in the UK that I visited (and I can hardly count Wales, as our stay there was just one night), I really loved Scotland. After four months of England, where my infant was often a source for disapproval (What? You brought an infant into a museum/theatre/shoppe/whatever? Don't you know we don't want those here?), Scotland was like coming home to home I didn't know I had. People were invariably cheerful, warm, and smiling. Sometimes I had to fend off female clerks who were just a bit too enthusiastic about pinching his cheeks. Of course, it helped that his little bunting was in what I was told was a royal Stuart tartan pattern. *g*