Scotland Vacation June 2007

[TimC]

Great shots. Thanks for sharing.

-Tim

[McMurdo]

Dee
Thank you for posting more of your holiday, it seems i missed these yesterday, some wonderful shots, I hope you both enjoyed your holiday, to say I am Green with envy would be a gross understatement.

Thanks again for the pictures.

[McMurdo]

Keep the pictures coming, as someone who hopes this will be his next holiday, I for one can not get enough.

[pdcorlis]

Here is a shot (dark) from inside the Cathedral. You most likely can't see it in this photo but one of the er....I can't remember what they are called but I'll say "buttons" in the ceiling is a face.

I think they are they called "bosses?"

[McClef]

Superb pictures Dee!

I drove through Carlisle last year and remember seeing the castle as we struggled through the horrendous traffic.

[porrick]

Thanks for posting, Dee! Looks like you had a smashing time - and I am sure you'll be back. How about including Norway next time?

[Phil]

Great pictures. They had to have a castle in Carlisle to keep the marauding Scots out. See you made it though.

[starbkjrus]

Thanks for posting, Dee! Looks like you had a smashing time - and I am sure you'll be back. How about including Norway next time?

Patrick, I've already hinted that I'd like to do that. I'd love to visit your country and sail under the midnight sun. And perhaps raid a border or two.

[starbkjrus]

As I said earlier this was a very unique side trip. We went to Glenkiln Reservoir and did the sculpture walk. This is someting we found on the Ferintosh website (located at http://www.ferintosh.net/walking.htm and decided to give it a go. It was a bit difficult to find but well worth the effort.

This ranch land filled with sheep that the owner decided to add sculptures to and is a very beautiful walk. Granted you end up driving through sheep pastures to get there (the nice farmer who was mowing the berms was very helpful in letting us get by in our trusty rented Vauxhall on the one lane road bordered by dry stone fences).

In a word its gorgeous. You are in a vast open countryside with hills, dry stone walls, streams, a reservoir and a farmhouse or two...with sculptures by renowned artists:

Here we go:

This is a Rodin that is onsite...I can't imagine here in this country that a Rodin would remain unmolsted in this setting but the guidbooks say it is:



This another sculpture that I cannot remember the name or artist of:



Robertson & Emma have a guidebook that details all this in the diningroom at Ferintosh.

This is a look across the reservoir. Just beautiful.



Two shots of the stream leading into the reservoir:





Pausing to save......

[McMurdo]

Those garden pictures are just superb, thanks for posting them.