✨ Treasure Hoard: The Castle in the Lake at Loch an Eilein
It was at that instant that the sharp easterly dropped and beyond the forest of Rothiemurchus, the snow bones of Creag Dhubh tousled the clouds into thin wisps of galloping guilloche.
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✨ Treasure Hoard: The ancient whale shaped stone in the north transept at Stobo Kirk
One of them - set into the wall - looks like a whale: a creature from deep time surfacing into the stony present.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Pictish Stones at the Tarbat Discovery Centre
To stand before them is to feel like the ancient hands that made them are reaching quietly into our time.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Old Moray House Gateposts
Old Moray House stands on Edinburgh’s Canongate, a fine surviving seventeenth-century aristocratic mansion. Built around 1625 for Mary, Dowager Countess of Home, it later passed to her daughter, the Countess of Moray. Today it forms part of the University of Edinburgh. Flanking the entrance are two extraordinary late-...
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Glass House at Benmore Botanic Gardens.
But this is no ordinary glasshouse. It is a glasshouse in the sky.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Fish and Chip Shop at Portree
Served with a dash of vinegar and a splash of Scots Gaelic - outside is a view to behold whilst chomping on your chips
✨ Treasure Hoard: House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
Mackintosh combined the Scottish vernacular with his own genius for originality and left us with a message that tells us originality can exist alongside tradition.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Winding Granite Walled Road to Ardnamurchan Point
The walls seem to buffer and embrace the journey, turning movement into anticipation.
⟁ Members' Supplement: Loch an Eilein, Scotland.
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