I had all kind of plans for a post today but work exploded and the writing thing never happened.
However…
Thankfully, there’s my phone, Instagram and lots of great memories.
These particular ones are from the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games and Gathering of Scottish Clans last July.

Beautiful North Carolina mountains and amazing skies.

Grandfather Mountain and 50,000 Scots and “wanna-Scots”

Highland dancers warming up

Tossing the sheaf!

Sheepdog trials – herding ducks!

Flags from 80 Clans and 15 Scottish Societies!
“Not the bee upon the blossom,
In the pride o’ sunny noon;
Not the little sporting fairy,
All beneath the simmer moon;
Not the poet, in the moment
Fancy lightens in his e’e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gi’es to me.”
― Robert Burns