A ceiling. As I recall we were told this was plaster made to look like carved wood:-

Another ceiling:-

An armorial ceiling:-

Fire Range:-

A fireplace:-

Heavily carved fireplace:-

Brodie Castle from approach drive:-

Side view:-

Dining table:-

Room with chandelier:-

Decorated internal doorway:-

Chaie longue:-

By the entrance to Brodie Castle in Moray there is a Pictish Stone:-

Reverse:-

Information Board:-

We drove through Ardersier (located on that arm of the Moray Firth which leads to Inverness) on the way to see Fort George – which was shut.

Like the Memorial at Resolis this is a column with carved crossed sword and rifle enclosed by a wreath, all surmounted by an urn:-

Front view:-

Dedications and names:-

Great War names:-

This carries the main line north/south to/from Inverness over the River Nairn. Another of those magnificent Victorian engineering achievements, the longest masonry viaduct in Scotland. I can count at least seventeen arches, but apparently there are 29.

It seems to be called the Nairn, Clava or Culloden Moor Viaduct.

I photographed it from the road leading to Clava Cairns:-

If you carry on up the main road from the car park at Clava Cairns you reach a further much smaller cairn site accessed by a footpath. This is Milton of Clava Cairn.

Looking back to main site from road:-

Milton of Clava Cairn (and standing stone) from path:-

Milton of Clava Cairn:-

See my previous post on Clava Cairns here.

Kerb Cairn:-

One of the cairns:-

A more mounded cairn:-

A tomb entrance:-

The ring cairn:-

Cairns towards back of site:-

Clava Cairns is a site near Inverness containing the quite well preserved remains of prehistoric structures used for burials. It’s also very close to the Culloden battle site.

General view from entrance:-

Looking back from inside site:-

Cairn (with entrance hidden by standing stone above):-

Interior of cairn:-

Cup and ring marks:-

On that trip north last year our hotel was in the south of Inverness. It was only seven or so miles  from the village of Dores on the eastern shore of Loch Ness.

Loch Ness looking south from east shore:-

Looking west:-

Looking northwest:-

As you can see the shore curves round almost due west. On that south facing shoreline is a small beach from which there is a fine view south:-

Looking southeast from that beach some of the village can be seen:-

A stone cross above a tapered rectangular column situated on a small hill at the junction of the A 862 and A 831 a mile or so west of Beauly itself.

World War dedications and names. An inscription states “Parish of Kilmorack” in which parish Beauly lies. There is also a name for 1979, presumably a death in Northern Ireland:-