The Borders are beautifully green rolling hills, verges covered in wildflowers of many varieties. It seems I took most of my hill-shots with the other camera--oops--but this gives the idea of hills and valley and flowers. The air smelled SO good out there this morning, I almost wanted to pull up a chaise lounge and loaf in someone's field...
Between the hills and the sea, another second breakfast, here called 'morning coffee.'
Mine is the scone and cream, sadly I ate only half of the cream! We don't have cream like that at home. But we are having dessert tonight, it's already been arranged! More about that later.
Lindesfarne Island was our main destination for the day. Located off the east coast accessed over a causeway at low tide, it was the home of a priory where the Gospels were copied and illuminated, a center for spreading Christianity on the east coast much as Iona had on the west. Of course the original manuscripts are in the British Museum, but the copies are impressive! Here is one pair of pages with an enlarger over one section--beautiful, intricate work.
Final stop before dinner (yet to come) was Melrose Abbey, that is the ruins of Melrose Abbey. And, no, it's not Melrose Place, though I'm sure dramas were played out over the ages here. It seemed to Mary and me that it was not as airy and graceful as Jedburgh, but different , with more sculptural touches like a bagpipe-playing pig! Alas, it was too high up to get a good photo, but a delightful concept just the same.
I'll get ready for dinner now, will you be having roast beef with Yorkshire pudding?
If a body meet a body
ReplyDeleteComin' through the rye
If somebody eats your puddin'
Need somebody cry?
Every Jackie has her scone
None, they say, have I
Yet all the cream does fill my lips
When comin' through the rye!
Love the tempting tastes you keep sharing. Here, morning coffee looks delicious and lovely. But the Melrose Abbey ruins is a stunning photo. Love the empty arches standing proud after all these years!
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