Today, I’m sharing some of my pictures from the far north of Scotland. Welcome to Orkney! Orkney was a delight! From the Viking-era St. Magnus cathedral and the Bishop’s Palace in Kirkwall to the beautiful countryside, there was so much to see! Ancient history is everywhere. Standing stones litter the landscape outside of Kirkwall and the other […]
It’s #TBRDive Monday! What’s a TBR? We all have them. To-Be-Read lists, piles, rooms, servers, caverns, vastness as large as the ocean floor. Treasure awaits us that we’re not enjoying! So, here we go. Each Monday dive into your TBR books and share what you come out with by using #TBRDive on whichever social media you […]
The last stops on my July trip were in Glasgow, Inverness, Orkney, Dundee, and Edinburgh, Scotland. I have too many pictures to share all at once, so check back here often for new views! From the port of Glasgow, I headed for Ayr, one of the two areas in Scotland where Clan Blair came from. (The […]
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Willa Blair goes 750 feet deep — into New Mexico’s Carlsbad Cavern My darling husband, Laird Peter, talked me into this adventure, and I’m glad he did. What an amazing trip, deep into the earth’s crust in the Carlsbad Caverns! That’s a point of view I never expected to experience. They’re not kidding when they say it […]
While in Scotland in July, I visited the Orkney Library and Archives in Kirkwall to bring them a set of my His Highland Heart series books and meet the folks behind the often hilarious tweets and Twitter exchanges with the Shetland Library. If you don’t follow both of them on Twitter, you’re missing out! I’m […]
On my recent visit to the east coast of Ireland and north coast of Northern Ireland, I made stops at Cork (actually its port, Cobh, pronounced “Cove”) and Dublin in Ireland, and Belfast in Northern Ireland. None of my stops lasted long enough–there was so much more to see and do, and more lovely people […]
I’m celebrating with Long and Short Reviews by being part of their Anniversary Scavenger Hunt, and you might win a $100 Amazon/BN GC! But time is short! There are two ways to enter to win and it’s easy to play – first read the blurb on my LASReviews contest page, then answer the question about HIS […]
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My introduction to the Isle of Man came a few years ago via a short-lived reality-TV show called King of Mann in which someone from Maryland claimed to be its last hereditary king and moved there to establish his claim. It was fun to watch, primarily because I never expected to see this part of […]