I drove up to Kilmartin. Kilmartin Glen is rich with prehistoric sites. For some reason I didn’t get engaged in this. I went to the museum and found it pretensious and a turn off. The best thing I found was in the Kirk, a display of paintings of the Queen by the local children
And some quite nice carved stones
I then drove up to Inverary, which is effectively a new town built in the late 18th century so it didn’t spoil the view of the Dukes of Argyll castle.
The kirk had a spire but it wasn’t safe so it was demolished. But the kirk is most interesting because it was built as two kirks, english speaking and gaelic speaking. Sadly the gaelic end is now a hall/badminton court.
A nice old garage
I then visited Auchindrain, described as the last farming township; a little settlement where the buildings are being preserved. Sadly I was still uninspired by this.
The best thing was the hens whose colour matched the hen house
However my day was fully recovered by a visit to Crarae Gardens, planted in a rocky gorge with, inter alia, some wonderful rhododendrons
The last few pictures are cheats because they were in the Plant Sales section, but the colours were so stunning I had to take pictures and also had to post them in the blog.
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