IMG_3943.JPG=Loch Lomond
IMG_3917.JPG=...and more people...and hey, there's our street!
IMG_4418.JPG=Sumburgh Head - large amounts of some type of bird
IMG_4510.JPG=Replica Viking ship
IMG_4487.JPG=Bog Cotton. You can't do anything with it, but it looks pretty.
IMG_4474.JPG=Shetland ponies
IMG_4587.JPG=Abbey Church remains
IMG_4207.JPG=Callanish standing stones, and a bunch of Callanish standing tourists standing around them
IMG_4352.JPG=St. Magnus Cathedral
IMG_4621.JPG=Some of ours
IMG_4023.JPG=Treine // old steam loco
IMG_4198.JPG=Dun Carloway Broch
IMG_4593.JPG=body holders
IMG_4394.JPG=At the top of this rectangular pillar, you can just make out the ol' hangin' ring
IMG_4393.JPG=Scalloway Castle
IMG_3968.JPG=carved wooden chair with...spooky heads
IMG_4175.JPG=Gearrannan Blackhouse Village
IMG_4007.JPG=Glen Coe, the highlands
IMG_4532.JPG=Sword dance
IMG_3975.JPG=Inverary Castle (Campbells)
IMG_4037.JPG=Seems like everytime I go on vacation, I catch crabs...
IMG_4282.JPG=Thistles - little spikeys hiding behind a rock
IMG_4067.JPG=One of many, many pubs :-P
IMG_4398.JPG=Scalloway Castle, lower level
IMG_4172.JPG=Gearrannan Blackhouse Village
IMG_4495.JPG=Eshaness Cliffs - Aberdeen
IMG_4612.JPG=Edinburgh Castle
IMG_4030.JPG=Masking-Tape-and-Plastic Man!
IMG_4567.JPG=Edinburgh, as viewed from the castle
IMG_4182.JPG=Hehehe
IMG_4197.JPG=Dun Carloway Broch
IMG_4460.JPG=I don't quite pull it off...
IMG_3967.JPG=Church of All Saints, Inverary
IMG_4404.JPG=Scalloway Castle, 2nd level
IMG_4370.JPG=Churchill Barriers / Scapa Flow area. Ships were intentionally scuttled here to block it against enemy infiltration.
IMG_4406.JPG=Scalloway Castle, 3rd level (or what's left of it). A broken spiral staircase (center, through arch) suggests a 4th level in a tower that is no longer present.
IMG_4453.JPG=Jarlshof
IMG_3889.JPG=Buchanan clan castle
IMG_4349.JPG=St. Magnus Cathedral
IMG_4402.JPG=Way up the chimney somewhere is a secret room. Patrick Stewart hid out there for 3 days before getting caught...
IMG_4315.JPG=Skara Brae
IMG_4614.JPG=Edinburgh Castle
IMG_4317.JPG=...
IMG_4401.JPG=Peeking inside the porter's room. The large fireplace at right holds a secret...
IMG_4365.JPG=St. Magnus Cathedral
IMG_4168.JPG=Gearrannan Blackhouse Village
IMG_4359.JPG=Body in this one too
IMG_3984.JPG=Inverary Castle
IMG_4159.JPG=Marked sheep, on the run
IMG_4596.JPG=Abbey Church remains and Palace of Holyroodhouse
IMG_4291.JPG=Castle of Mey
IMG_4313.JPG=Village of Skara Brae, living quarters (Reproduction)
IMG_4601.JPG=Ye Olde Weapon Store
IMG_3928.JPG=Glasgow Cathedral
IMG_4409.JPG=At top center, right in the crease, is a tiny slit in the wall. This is the window for the secret room.
IMG_4290.JPG=Castle of Mey
IMG_4563.JPG=Edinburgh Castle - "walk-in fireplace"
IMG_4123.JPG=Butt of Lewis
IMG_4239.JPG=For Dave :-) No trim to be had, unfortunately.
IMG_4112.JPG=Croft houses - Musem of Island Life
IMG_4378.JPG=Stones of Brogar
IMG_4476.JPG=Shetland ponies - wow, I think I've seen German Shepards bigger than this one
IMG_4588.JPG=Abbey Church remains
IMG_4302.JPG=Sure you did.
IMG_4622.JPG=it escaped!
IMG_4579.JPG=Edinburgh Castle
IMG_4458.JPG=Beware of DAREDEVILS Next 3 Miles
IMG_4536.JPG=Squeezebox
IMG_4469.JPG=Shetland ponies
IMG_4110.JPG=Accidental composite (or, I have a brother growing out of my chest)
IMG_3886.JPG=Buchanan clan castle
IMG_4531.JPG=Sword dance
IMG_4194.JPG=Dun Carloway Broch ...and Dave
IMG_4020.JPG=Glenfinnan Viaduct. Made famous by use as a train bridge in a Harry Potter movie
IMG_3916.JPG=...packed with people...
IMG_3951.JPG=The rest of the fam, looking like tourists...ok, my bro looks like a sleeping tourist...
IMG_4209.JPG=Callanish standing stones, inner circle
IMG_4494.JPG=Eshaness Cliffs - Aberdeen
IMG_4236.JPG=Hehe. Apparently Bush was a brand of TV...
IMG_4559.JPG=Boston, there's no escaping ye!
IMG_4604.JPG=Yep, they've got fundies here too (sign-waver near center)
IMG_4455.JPG=Jarlshof
IMG_4120.JPG=Really? (As opposed to those danged hydrophilic ones...)
IMG_3977.JPG=Looking down the moat
IMG_3982.JPG=Sheeeep!
IMG_4050.JPG=Eilean Donan Castle - interior courtyardish area
IMG_4170.JPG=Gearrannan Blackhouse Village
IMG_4426.JPG=Sumburgh Head
IMG_3887.JPG=Buchanan clan castle
IMG_3923.JPG=The completely over-the-top Glasgow City Chambers (background)
IMG_4430.JPG=Sumburgh Head pufffins
IMG_3920.JPG=Upload your garbage here!
IMG_4253.JPG=Go-kart?
IMG_4572.JPG=The Dungeon (reproduction)
IMG_4635.JPG=Dave getting a spinning lesson
IMG_4407.JPG=Scalloway Castle
IMG_4160.JPG=...that's what they're running from
IMG_4246.JPG=Lochbroom
IMG_4481.JPG=Again with the feeding cookies to anything that moves...
IMG_4600.JPG=Ye Olde Weapon Store
IMG_4512.JPG=Thistle
IMG_4419.JPG=Sumburgh Head
IMG_4286.JPG=Nuke reactor core
IMG_4316.JPG=Village of Skara Brae ruins, 5,000 years old
IMG_4083.JPG=Sheeeeps blocking up the road
IMG_4135.JPG=Butt of Lewis
IMG_4564.JPG="Whatever I've done...Been staring down the barrel of a gun..."
IMG_4379.JPG=Bunches of these hanging out inside the ring of stones
IMG_4626.JPG=Think we've got enemies...
IMG_4438.JPG=Jarlshof - some parts dating back to the Stone Age, 4000+ years
IMG_4613.JPG=Edinburgh Castle
IMG_4591.JPG=Abbey Church remains
IMG_4208.JPG=Callanish standing stones
IMG_4382.JPG=Stones of Brogar
IMG_4210.JPG=Callanish standing stones
IMG_4501.JPG=More marked sheep. This means one of two things. The l'il hoes...
IMG_3931.JPG=The oldest house in Glasgow
IMG_4248.JPG=Lochbroom - kids squirting water at a seal
IMG_4345.JPG=Ruins in Kirkwall
IMG_4526.JPG=HAGGIS! This man looks thrilled...or, like he's seen a ghost
IMG_3946.JPG=Hehe
IMG_4027.JPG=...
IMG_4528.JPG=Haggis, en-plated. It's actually pretty good.
IMG_3930.JPG=wooooOOOOOOooooooo.....
IMG_4464.JPG=Shetland ponies
IMG_4148.JPG=Butt of Lewis lighthouse
IMG_4087.JPG=Peat harvesting, trench
IMG_4129.JPG=Butt of Lewis
IMG_4428.JPG=Sumburgh Head pufffins
IMG_4377.JPG=Stones of Brogar
IMG_3888.JPG=Buchanan clan castle
IMG_4586.JPG=Abbey Church remains
IMG_4475.JPG=Shetland ponies
IMG_4405.JPG=Scalloway Castle
IMG_4184.JPG=My dad in a funny hat
IMG_4297.JPG=:-P
IMG_4618.JPG=*squick* Drug needle disposal inside a crypt in the graveyard. The crypt is littered with paraphernalia.
IMG_4109.JPG=OK, so everyone had to get pics of themselves in an old red phonebooth
IMG_4025.JPG=...
IMG_3936.JPG=Don't remember what building this is, but it sure is pointy
IMG_4449.JPG=Jarlshof
IMG_4632.JPG=yyyyeah
IMG_4454.JPG=Jarlshof - fresh water well
IMG_3929.JPG=Glasgow Cathedral
IMG_4412.JPG=Planter made from a steel-belted radial
IMG_4187.JPG=Dun Carloway Broch
IMG_4392.JPG=Scalloway Castle
IMG_4147.JPG=...
IMG_4470.JPG=Shetland ponies
IMG_4624.JPG=Some of ours
IMG_4296.JPG=Livin' on the edge...
IMG_4366.JPG=Hanging lantern, in a small bunker-converted-to-chapel built by POWs in 1943, out of highly improvised materials. This is made from a beef tin.
IMG_4631.JPG=Crazed chainmail-wearing dude...reminds me of Kristoff!
IMG_4115.JPG=Tomb carver: What do you want on your tombstone? This guy: Me!
IMG_3918.JPG=Yummy - de-shelled clams and salt in some juice - seemed to be an inexplicably popular snack item
IMG_4592.JPG=Abbey Church remains
IMG_4577.JPG=Edinburgh Castle - fenced-off dungeony area, viewed through the fence
IMG_4408.JPG=Scalloway Castle
IMG_4585.JPG=Abbey Church remains
IMG_4200.JPG=Dun Carloway Broch
IMG_4568.JPG=Edinburgh
IMG_3974.JPG=Inverary Castle (Campbells)
IMG_4054.JPG=Window opening showing the thickness of the walls
IMG_4204.JPG=Callanish standing stones
IMG_4047.JPG=Eilean Donan Castle
IMG_4121.JPG=A pointy cathedral in Stornoway
IMG_4440.JPG=Jarlshof
IMG_4456.JPG=Jarlshof
IMG_4594.JPG=body holders
IMG_3907.JPG=Nippy ducks
IMG_4006.JPG=Glen Coe, the highlands
IMG_3927.JPG=Glasgow Cathedral
IMG_4511.JPG=Scotch-flavored condoms?! OK, I had to get some...
IMG_4066.JPG=Eilean Donan Castle
IMG_4138.JPG=Entirely too many pictures of steamy, wet, wave-on-rock action
IMG_4578.JPG=Edinburgh Castle
IMG_4574.JPG=Down there is more like the real thing, but caged off
IMG_4489.JPG=Bro and me in authentic Viking warrior grip. Actually, it looks more like necking...
IMG_3909.JPG=My folks
IMG_4552.JPG=Scott Monument
IMG_4354.JPG=There's a body in this pillar...
IMG_4251.JPG=Ullapool
IMG_4049.JPG=Eilean Donan Castle
IMG_4235.JPG=These are all people following the pipers around. I think I remember a story like this somewhere...it didn't end well.
IMG_4505.JPG=Stained glass inside the Lerwick town hall
IMG_4466.JPG=Shetland ponies
IMG_4434.JPG=Jarlshof archaeological site, consisting of several settlements built on top of each other at various times
IMG_4561.JPG=Edinburgh Castle
IMG_4452.JPG=Jarlshof
IMG_4218.JPG=Callanish standing stones, aerial representation
IMG_4447.JPG=Jarlshof - Inside a wheel house, so named for these load-bearing "spokes"
IMG_4080.JPG=More nippy ducks. Hey, don't feed 'em cookies...
IMG_4410.JPG=Scalloway Castle
IMG_4086.JPG=Peat
IMG_4053.JPG=ouch
IMG_4232.JPG=Stornoway, pied pipers preparing to attract a crowd of tourists and lead 'em around
IMG_4348.JPG=St. Magnus Cathedral
IMG_4391.JPG=It looks like a gingerbread house
IMG_4551.JPG=Scott Monument - tribute to Sir Walter Scott. 2.5s integration on the Jane-Cam
IMG_4040.JPG=Eilean Donan Castle - rebuilt to faithfully match original design (>=95%)
IMG_4480.JPG=Shetland ponies
IMG_4414.JPG=:-)
IMG_4584.JPG=Holyrood Palace - inside courtyard
IMG_4364.JPG=More ruins in Kirkwall
IMG_4443.JPG=Jarlshof
IMG_4439.JPG=Jarlshof
IMG_4258.JPG=Ardvreck Castle
IMG_4463.JPG=Shetland ponies
IMG_4598.JPG=Edinburgh Castle and a bit of city
IMG_4607.JPG=Statue of Greyfriars Bobby
IMG_4360.JPG=There he is, behind that gray one
IMG_4111.JPG=Croft houses - Musem of Island Life
IMG_4429.JPG=Sumburgh Head pufffins
IMG_4582.JPG=Holyrood Palace
IMG_3897.JPG=These statues always seem to have their heads removed
IMG_4346.JPG=St. Magnus Cathedral
IMG_4255.JPG=Ardvreck Castle
IMG_3972.JPG=More shaggy highland cows
IMG_3892.JPG=Buchanan clan castle
IMG_3970.JPG=Inverary Castle (Campbells)
IMG_4497.JPG=Eshaness Cliffs - Aberdeen
IMG_4473.JPG=Shetland ponies
IMG_4442.JPG=Jarlshof
IMG_4390.JPG=This guy decked out his garden shed with probably over a thousand hand-picked seashells
IMG_3944.JPG=Loch Lomond
IMG_4171.JPG=Gearrannan Blackhouse Village
IMG_4166.JPG=Floating fish farm. Roll it up and make a nice, big katamari.
IMG_4448.JPG=Jarlshof
IMG_4262.JPG=
IMG_4305.JPG=Old Man of Hoy
IMG_4611.JPG=Scott Memorial in daylight
IMG_4018.JPG=Glenfinnan - Glenfinnan Monument
IMG_4165.JPG=Whalebone Arch
IMG_4590.JPG=Abbey Church remains
IMG_4562.JPG=Edinburgh Castle
IMG_4444.JPG=Jarlshof
IMG_4124.JPG=Butt of Lewis
IMG_4009.JPG=Glen Coe, the highlands
IMG_4113.JPG=Croft houses - Musem of Island Life
IMG_3915.JPG=Glasgow's weekend stop-n-swap
IMG_4411.JPG=Closeup of an iron ring used during construction of the castle...to hang people from if they skipped out on construction work.
IMG_4508.JPG="We axe for what we want"
IMG_4515.JPG=The Indestructible Train Bridge (my unofficial name) - entering Edinburgh
IMG_4263.JPG=Heather
IMG_4167.JPG=Gearrannan Blackhouse Village
IMG_4477.JPG=A little mutual nibbling never hurt anyone
IMG_4057.JPG=Eilean Donan Castle
IMG_3965.JPG=Recursive photography
IMG_4122.JPG=Yep, that's a palm tree. Weather was coldish, but reportedly it only drops to freezing about 5 days a year.
IMG_4527.JPG=Haggis, de-stomached
IMG_4216.JPG=Sheep, and a guy a-sneaking up on them with his huge lens sticking out
IMG_4589.JPG=Abbey Church remains
IMG_4164.JPG=Hey, I thought they looked nifty
IMG_4145.JPG=...
IMG_4372.JPG=Stones of Brogar
IMG_4055.JPG=Eilean Donan Castle
IMG_4376.JPG=Stones of Brogar
IMG_4471.JPG=Shetland ponies
IMG_3900.JPG=Yeah, they're a little dessicated...
IMG_4415.JPG="This Way To The Pubs"
IMG_3963.JPG=Inverary Jail. Knowing our history, it's a safe bet that some of our ancestors spent some quality time here...
IMG_4459.JPG=My dad, the Viking
IMG_4356.JPG=Organ pipes
IMG_4400.JPG=Scalloway Castle, lower level
IMG_4602.JPG=Ye Olde Weapon Store
IMG_4294.JPG=Castle of Mey
IMG_4301.JPG=Saying it like it is. None of this "it could, theoretically, be not as nice for your body as fresh spring water" crap.
IMG_4630.JPG=Robert the Bruce
IMG_4399.JPG=Scalloway Castle, lower level
IMG_4350.JPG=St. Magnus Cathedral
IMG_3925.JPG=William Gladstone statue and...guest. Of about 5 statues in this square, only one didn't have something perched upon it.
IMG_4636.JPG=Symptoms include fever, headache, tiredness, and body aches, occasionally with a skin rash (on the trunk of the body) and swollen lymph glands
IMG_4492.JPG=Rawr
IMG_4396.JPG=Scalloway Castle, lower level
IMG_4176.JPG=Ancient loom making Harris tweed
IMG_3976.JPG=Moat - no water, crocs, piranhas...it was an architectural feature to get air & sunlight to the lower floor! I had no idea.
IMG_3971.JPG=Highland Coo
IMG_4311.JPG=Village of Skara Brae, living quarters (Reproduction)
IMG_4533.JPG=Sword dance
IMG_4482.JPG=Enough ponies already?
IMG_4583.JPG=Holyrood Palace
IMG_3973.JPG=Inverary Castle (Campbells)
IMG_4375.JPG=Stones of Brogar
IMG_4024.JPG=...
IMG_4445.JPG=Jarlshof
IMG_4381.JPG=Stones of Brogar
IMG_4193.JPG=Dun Carloway Broch
IMG_4451.JPG=Jarlshof
IMG_4143.JPG=...
IMG_4569.JPG=Balls on a brass monkey, sorta
IMG_4363.JPG=St. Magnus Cathedral
IMG_4507.JPG=Stained glass inside the Lerwick town hall
IMG_4295.JPG=Dunnet Head - Most northern point of mainland Britain
IMG_4205.JPG=Callanish standing stones
IMG_4163.JPG=Whalebone Arch - real whale bones, painted over for protection against weather, and the harpoon that killed it dangling from the middle
IMG_4425.JPG=Sumburgh Head
IMG_4427.JPG=Sumburgh Head pufffins
IMG_4465.JPG=Shetland ponies
IMG_4195.JPG=Dun Carloway Broch - between inner and outer walls, multiple 'floors'
IMG_4245.JPG=Hail to the bus driver, bus driver man
IMG_4026.JPG=...
IMG_4125.JPG=Butt of Lewis
IMG_4422.JPG=Puffin
IMG_4619.JPG=Edinburgh Castle
IMG_4403.JPG=Scalloway Castle, 2nd level
IMG_4021.JPG=Glenfinnan Viaduct
IMG_4595.JPG=Abbey Church remains
IMG_4068.JPG=Eilean Donan Castle with the tide in - it's a wee little island
IMG_4261.JPG=Ardvreck Castle
IMG_4059.JPG=Down to the dungeon
IMG_4201.JPG=Dun Carloway Broch
IMG_4608.JPG=Greyfriars Bobby
IMG_4479.JPG=Shetland ponies
IMG_4028.JPG=...
IMG_4431.JPG=Whale vertebra
IMG_4309.JPG=We like big BUTs and we can not lie
IMG_4478.JPG=Shetland ponies
IMG_4134.JPG=Butt of Lewis
IMG_3921.JPG=If you're ingesting hot pea, I guess it had better by hygenic...
IMG_4493.JPG=Our viking tourguide is Super, thanks for asking
IMG_4486.JPG=Thistle
IMG_4048.JPG=Eilean Donan Castle
