Its too cold and windy today to go outside although I may venture out to the garden centre later. These were taken on Monday in the woods behind Inverkip Marina, I think they are mostly beech trees. Some of them are massive old things, a lot with hollow bases and branches. Its a very peaceful place.
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It does look very peaceful, indeed!
(I went to the doctors office only to find out my appointment had been cancelled, so I walked to the nearby library instead and checked out a couple children's books I found on Scotland, full of color photos and easy to read text... Hopefully to learn something about your fair country!)
What I have learned so far this morning:
You must be WET there, Claire! It was a Scot (Charles Macintosh) who invented the raincoat, and here that is something one should never leave home without!
Also many famous Americans that we call our own were actually born in Scotland: Andrew Carnegie (industrialist and later philothropist -- building of many of our libraries nationwide), John Muir (author & naturalist -- and a mover and shaker in the environmentalist movement), John Paul Jones (founder of the American Navy), and Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of the telephone -- OH, curses on him! ;-) )
Those are great photos. I don't think I've ever seen a beech tree before. It does look very peaceful.
Wildside you are having a laugh. . . rain, sleet, N/e force 4, the scots are inventive because they have to stay inside so much, its something to do. . .
Madcap I have had a look to see if I,ve a picture of those woods in the summer but can't find one. Beech is fairly common here but not ususlly as old as the ones at Ardgowan, they've been protected as its a private estate.
even the tree with the mushroom type thing is GORGEOUS!!!!
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