Monthly Archives: May 2012
Memories of Scotland – Summer 2011
This is picture 26 of 30 from my Summer 2011 trip home to Scotland. I paused for a long while after I took this picture. My great uncle was a coal merchant – a career that cut his life short.
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The person who doesn’t read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.
~ Umberto Eco
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Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Memories of Scotland – Summer 2011
This is picture 25 of 30 from my Summer 2011 trip home to Scotland. I will always admire the dockyard cranes standing along the banks of the River Clyde – a reminder of the pride with which my forebearers contributed to the industrial might of the United Kingdom in days gone past.
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Memories of Scotland – Summer 2011
This is picture 24 of 30 from my Summer 2011 trip home to Scotland. It had been so long since I last visited Glasgow that I decided to spend a few hours on the hop-on, hopp-off tour bus – just to get myself situated again.
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I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening – the time they call, for some accountable reason, ‘between dog and wolf’.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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The past is the luxury of proprietors.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Memories of Scotland – Summer 2011
This is picture 23 of 30 from my Summer 2011 trip home to Scotland. Enjoyed a visit with a cousin who is the maintence man for Lesmahagow High School.
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