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Day 4 97/5/28

10:09 am. Talking with Frances Roebuck about family history. She was very interested in the family tree that Uncle Pat put together (this version was several years old, but I'll be sending her a copy of the information we have) and showed us her family folder. When her daughter was much younger she wrote a small history on Leny House. Someday I'd like to read the whole book, unfortunately we only had time for a short peek.

We took a walk through the grounds before we left, hoping to get pictures of the cemetery. It turned out that the burial ground was walled off, so we had to take pictures from outside the wall. The open door below led to an adjacent area that perhaps was reserved for future tenants.

Entrance to the 'secret garden'

Marker (from way off)

This is where we took the picture just above.

11:58 am. In cemetery in Callander (Little Leny?). Most of the headstones are illegible & eaten up by moss & lichen. We took several pictures here and Susan made one headstone rubbing.

1:58 P.M. On dock on Loch Lomond in Balmaha. It's very pleasant here. The water is dark & clear. We've seen a swan, duck & many people at this dock today. While the water is amazingly clear, it also has a brownish tint which is due, I suppose, to peat.

2:57 P.M. Church of Scotland, Drymen cemetery. More pictures and headstone rubbings. There were several Buchanans buried here in the last century

4:29 P.M. Rannoch Moor. Very windy and there is a bagpiper killing a cat here (actually he's pretty good).

4:44 P.M. Rannoch Moor summit 1141ft. I didn't think a moor could have a summit, but here it is...

4:53 P.M. Public footpath Glen Etive. it's windy & pretty here.

5:00 P.M. Something really small, brown & furry ran across the road (maybe that was a neap).

5:33 P.M. In Glencoe now, earlier took picture of Clacaigh Inn. Now we're in visitor center trying to book a room somewhere. The Clacaigh Inn is a small inn where a friend of ours worked a few summers ago. It didn't seem to be as far out in the middle of nowhere as we'd heard but I imagine that having a car changes your perspective just a bit.

7:44 P.M. In bar near our b&b (Glendevin) in Inchree. We each had a half pint s- isle of Skye red cuillin, m-youngers tartan special. (The menu wasn't very exciting so we drove on over to...)

8:03 P.M. in Onich hotel. Dry blackthorne cider, Carlsberg beer. We've had dinner (ham w/pineapple & curry chicken) & now (9:17 P.M.) we're waiting for dessert which is raspberry cheesecake. There are lots of different people here (being a hotel) & there is one woman who has been watching us for some time now. we've been joking & laughing quite a bit for a while & I guess we're amusing.

9:25 P.M. By the way, the sun is still shining on the hills across from the hotel. it won't be bright for much longer (hour) but it will be light.

9:39 It's cool, surprisingly so outside the sunlight. This feels like it must get very cold in winter here. I'd love to see these hills covered in snow.

10:31 P.M. Just had a very nice conversation with our hosts. They remind me of Kit & Arnold Kit and Arnold run a pleasant little B&B in New Mexico that we stayed in several years ago. Pleasant talkative people that make perfect B&B hosts. Now we're getting ready for bed and watching an old X-Files episode. Yes, I know, we go to Scotland and watch X-Files. But it was an episode we hadn't seen.