Picture Perfect Memories for life
Myriad memories frozen in time
Good day friends,
I hope that you all are still happy and healthy.
Here is my contribution for Cee’s FOTD Challenge.
With all my heart, Thank You for your ongoing support and for taking the time to have a look at my post.
Stay safe and healthy. Till next time.
Have a Fabulous day.
Coreen
Good day friends,
I hope that you all are still happy and healthy.
Here is my contribution for Cee’s FOTD Challenge.
With all my heart, Thank You for your ongoing support and for taking the time to have a look at my post.
Stay safe and healthy. Till next time.
Have a Fabulous day.
Coreen
Good day friends,
I hope that you all are still happy and healthy.
Here is my contribution for Cee’s FOTD Challenge. I do need some help identifying this plant.
I took the photos 18 August 2019 on route to the Kylesku Bridge in Scotland.
“Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound” ~Edwin Curran
With all my heart, Thank You for your ongoing support and for taking the time to have a look at my post.
Stay safe and healthy. Till next time.
Have a Fabulous day.
Coreen
Here is my contribution for Cee’s FOTD Challenge.
Perennial Aster
Thank you very much for taking the time to have a look at my work.
Stay safe and healthy. Till next time.
Have a Fabulous day.
Coreen
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” Â ~Buddha
My contribution for Cee’s FOTD Challenge.
Thistle
Thank you very much for taking the time to have a look at my work.
Have a fabulous day. Till next time, please stay safe and healthy.
Coreen
Good day everybody,
I am a bit late today. I went with my youngest son to book his Drivers license test. Due to Covid 19, the q’s are long, but we went prepared with coffee and, I took my book The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz with. Luckily for us, we did not have to stand in the q for too long. We got there just after 8:00am and left just past 10:00am.
Here is my contribution to Cee’s FOTD Challenge.
Thank you very much for taking the time to have a look at my work.
Have a fabulous day. Till next time, please stay safe and healthy.
Coreen
Good day eveybody,
Today I am going to need your help again. Am I on the right track? I took these photos in Alford, on our Grand Tour of Scotland in August 2019.
Leather Flower Clematis
Thank you very much for taking the time to have a look at my work.
Have a fabulous day. Till next time, please stay safe and healthy.
Coreen
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
~Walt Disney
Good morning
I have no idea what to call this flower. I captured it while visiting Inverness in August 2019. If someone can please help me identify it, I would be very grateful. I tried looking in my Collins Nature guide for Wild Flowers of Britain and Europe, but could not find it.
Next time I travel to a country, I will make sure I buy enough books on wildlife, trees, flowers, birds, and the history of that country.
Here is my entry to Cee’s FOTD Challenge.
Thank you very much for taking the time to have a look at my work.
Have a fabulous day. Till next time, please stay safe and healthy.
Coreen
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
Good day everyone,
Here is my contribution for Cee’s FOTD challenge.
I took this photo of the Asiatic Lily on our Grand Tour of Scotland in August 2019.
Thank you very much for taking the time to have a look at my work.
Have a fabulous day. Till next time, please stay safe and healthy.
Coreen
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
Good day everyone,
Here is my contribution to Cee’s Flower of the day challenge.
Thank you for taking the time to have a look at my work.
Till next time, stay safe and healthy.
Coreen
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
My contribution to Cee’s Flower of the day challenge.
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
Good morning everyone,
Here is my contribution for Cee’s Flower of the day Challenge
I captured this beauty at Aberdour Castle Gardens on our Grand Tour of Scotland.
Thank you for taking the time to have a look at my work.
Till next time, stay safe and healthy.
Coreen
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Good day everyone,
Hope you are all still healthy. This week was very busy with my studies and finishing up editing work for clients.
For the next few days, I can concentrate on editing our Scotland vacation.
Let’s continue our Grand Tour of Scotland. Today I am sharing with you the photos I took while exploring St Andrews.
Dad was still not feeling up to walking, and he stayed in the car while I explored and took some photos of the surroundings.
My first stop was St Leonard’s Parish Church. On my next visit to Scotland, I am definitely going to make a point of it to go inside the churches to capture the interiors as well.
While I was exploring, I noticed the different types of stone and brick walls. It really stood out to me.
Up next are some random photos of the buildings and houses.
My next stop was the Victory Memorial Hall. The blue door and entry of the hall caught my eye immediately. I searched online for more information about the Victory Memorial Hall, but shockingly, I could not find any.
St Andrews has so many beautiful churches, and I only walked down one street.
The Hope Park and Martyrs Parish Church have a spectacular exterior, I can just imagine how the interior must be. The beautiful flower baskets in front of the windows really caught my eye.
Thank you for exploring St Andrews with me. In my next post we will continue exploring.
Keep safe and healthy.
Till next time.
Coreen
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
Good day everybody,
I am feeling much better today. I hope you are all still healthy and enjoying life to the fullest.
WOW day two on the road, but first a little of our stay and warm reception at Knockhill Farm just outside St Andrews.
Linda Wood, the owner of Knockhill Farm B&B, made us feel right at home with her friendly reception. We ran late, and she was worried that something happened to us on the way there. She even went as far and contacted Nordic Visitor, our tour agent, to find out if they had heard something.
Linda showed us to our accommodation for the evening, and we talked a bit about our day. She then told us that breakfast will be served at 8:00 AM and showed us where we must go.
Our accommodation had a spacious lounge, with 2 comfortable couches, a television, and enough reading material to keep us busy for the night.
In the kitchen area, we had a variety of coffee and teas to choose from.
The bathroom was also very spacious and had a beautiful big walk-in shower. There were fresh bath sheets, face towels, shampoo, shower gel, and cream.
The spacious bedroom had two twin beds, cupboards and, a dressing table.
After a long warm shower, I put on my PJ’s and made myself and dad a nice cup of coffee. We sat down in the lounge, dad grabbed a book and started reading and I started writing a quick blog with photos I took on the road with my phone.
When I first anticipated writing a blog every evening, I did not factor in how tired I would be after a long day on the road.
We went to bed around 10:30 PM for a well-deserved rest.
At around 5:00 AM, I woke up refreshed. I got out of bed, got dressed, and gathered all my things. I grabbed my camera and headed outside to take some photos of the farm and its surroundings.
I made dad and myself a cup of coffee then I woke him up just after 6:30 AM, giving him ample time to get ready.
Dad finished with time to spare, and we decided to take a walk down the road.
Thank you for joining us at Knockhill Farm B&B. Hope you enjoyed your stay just as much as we did. Our next stop St Andrews.
Till next time. Stay safe.
Coreen
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
From a very young age I was exposed to Hydrangeas. My grandmother had the most beautiful Blue/Purple ones in her garden. Her pink ones was huge. I can remember a photo on my grandmothers nightstand with me next to it. I looked like a fairy under the big bloom. I wish I could get hold of it. I was about 18 months when it was taken.
While visiting Scotland I fell in love with these beauties all over again and when I got back from our tour I bought myself a plant at the nursery. It lost all it’s leaves though…. I just hope it stays alive during this cold winter. Yesterday I saw new leaves coming out. So I am trying to keep positive.
Thank you Cee for giving me the opportunity to post my Hydrangea photo’s again.
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
Here is my flower photo for today. I don’t know what it is called. But I took it on our Grand Tour of Scotland in August 2019.
Dad and I took a walk before breakfast down the road from Knockhill Farm.
Thank you for stopping by.
Till next time.
Stay Safe.
Coreen
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” Walt Disney
Good day everyone,
Hope you are all still safe and healthy. Here in Capetown we are freezing our buds off. My hands feel like two ice cubes.
Our next stop was Aberdour Castle and Gardens. It was spectacular and this was the first castle we visited on our Grand Tour of Scotland. Nordic Visitor arranged for explorer passes with Historic Scotland. This enables us to visit a wide range of places without standing in queue’s at ticket counters.
After getting our pass activated we could go and explore. The only thing dad wanted to explore was the shop and restaurant…. But I got him to walk with me through the garden and grounds.
We had to walk through the Walled Garden to get to St. Fillans Church. It took me a while to get to St Fillans Church there was just too many beautiful flowers to capture…
I borrowed some information from the St. Fillans Churches website.
“St Fillan’s Church is one of the finest examples of simple Norman architecture in Scotland. To the south it overlooks Aberdour Harbour, north and west it is sheltered by the high wall of Aberdour Castle garden and to the east what was the Castle kitchen garden. As early as 1390 St Fillan is mentioned as the patron saint of the church.
Entrance to the church and its old cemetery is from Hawkcraig Road along Kirk Wynd. At the top of the Wynd, on the right is a door to the Castle grounds, above which the monogram of William, Earl of Morton and his wife Lady Anne, dated 1632. Further down the Wynd, on the left, is a collection of badly weathered old gravestones, some dating from the seventeenth century.
Initially St Fillan’s consisted simply of a nave and the chancel, lit by deep splayed windows and remains much as it was in the 12th century. Sockets for the rood screen can still be seen.
The dedication to St Fillan probably came about through the influence of Robert I (the Bruce), who gave Aberdour to his close friend and supporter Thomas Randolph Earl of Moray. St Fillan was the king’s favourite saint and is credited with helping the Scots win the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.
In the 15th century, the church was enlarged by the addition of the south aisle. This involved an arcade supported by the three pseudo-Norman pillars and lowering the floor to its present level.
St. Fillan’s Church will celebrate its 900th Anniversary in 2023.”
For more information please go to St Fillans Church .
Next we walked around and came across the Terraced Garden.
Up next we had a peek into the stables and then went for a nice cup of tea.
After our tea break I went to explore some more and dad went to the gift shop to look for fridge magnets for his collection.
Thank you for joining us on our walk through Aberdour Castle and the gardens. Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
Our next stop is Kirkcaldy.
Till next time…. Stay safe.
Coreen
"If you can dream it, you can do it." Walt Disney
This is my first time taking part in Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD) Challenge. I won’t be posting every day but will at least post twice a week.
These past few days I have been thinking of my Grandmother a lot. One of her favorite flowers was the Cosmos…..
Good day everyone,
Our next stop was a beautiful little town called Aberdour. Just as we entered the town I was taken with all the flowers and beautiful houses and their hanging basket gardens…. The streets are not really wide and the houses are on the street only a narrow sidewalk that separate them from the street. I saw only a few houses with nice front yards and the most beautiful gardens.
We stopped at a parking area near a garden and I took my camera and walked up the road to where we entered Aberdour.
I just love Hydrangea’s and the colors are to die for. I grew up with light pink and blue/purple Hydrangea’s. I just could not get enough of these pretty plants.
As you know by now I loved capturing Churches and Cathedrals even if they are closed. The architecture is just amazing. I love the colorful doors and the beautiful windows. I just wish we had enough time to go into every single one we visited. Also I know I missed a few too.
Here are some photos taken on my walk back to the car.
Thank you for joining us on this short visit at Aberdour. Next up Aberdour Castle and Gardens.
Stay safe and have a Blessed day.
Till next time…..
Coreen
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” Walt Disney
Good day everyone,
Hope all of you are still in good health…
Without further delay let’s continue our road trip to St Andrews and Knockhill Farm where we will be spending the night.
Our next stop was Dalgety Bay. The 8th largest town in Fife. We did not spend a lot of time exploring Dalgety Bay due to a very long list of places still to see. Also at this stage I was struggling with the Tom Tom trying to get to the places of interest on our list…. We were trying to find Donibristle Stable Block but ended up with a view of the Fourth Road Railway Bridge instead. Not that I am complaining. The views and flowers were stunning.
Our next stop on our list was Cornerstone Full Gospel Church. I got the names on my Google Maps when I planned our trip. What I did came to realize on our Grand Tour of Scotland was that the names on Google Maps and the names on the signboards are not always the same….
Dad and I saw the church on our way to Dalgety Bay and on our way back we took the turnoff to the church. Next to the church I found this beautiful cottage with fields and sheep.
I walked up to the gate to see if I could enter and it was open so I walked inside and took a few photo’s. Now this is what I call a peaceful place. Normally I don’t like walking in graveyards, but one thing that stood out for me was how peaceful it was here. Maybe it is the surrounding pastures with sheep and horses grazing. One don’t even hear the cars passing on the road to and from Dalgety Bay.
Thank you for visiting Dalgety Bay with us. Our next stop is Aberdour and I am looking forward to sharing some of the photo’s taken in this beautiful town.
Please keep safe. Till next time.
Coreen
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” Walt Disney
Good day everyone,
At long last we can start our next phase of our Grand Tour of Scotland. We will be driving along the coast to St Andrews where we will spend the night at Knockhill Farm. I must admit I was very nervous on that Cloudy Tuesday morning. This would be my first time driving in Scotland and I did not know what to expect. The only comfort for me was that I am use to driving on the left side of the road.
Our driver that picked us up at the airport on Sunday gave me a few tips and told me to avoid the bus lanes and that I should never park in parking places for taxi’s. He also explained to me how the passing place work.
The people at Arnold Clark was very friendly and before I knew it we were on our way to Inverkeithing our first stop.
We stopped in the first parking lot we could find and from here we walked and explored for a while. While touring through Scotland I fell in love with the buildings, the decor and details on the buildings, the shapes and sizes of the windows, the colorful and detailed doors and lastly the bright colors used to paint the houses and shops. I we could I think we would have stayed much longer in the different towns and I would have taken building by building, street by street to make sure I capture every little detail….. But we have to cover around 100 to 180 miles per day depending on our route and we had to be at our final destination for the day at a certain time… This was one of the reasons we decided that our next tour of Scotland we will do in a campervan and we will stay in Scotland for about 76 days.
