Posting as I get a chance so this will include a couple of days ago 8/17. OOTD: Barbour jacket Peter James and Levi’s again. Orvis light weight cotton flannel. (Remember, I only packed a single carry on😉) After a few ferry rides from Oban to the island of Iona we walked the Abby which is the venerated site of St Columba who brought the Christian faith from Ireland to Scotland in the 6th century. His bones were buried in a small wooden structure that was later rebuilt in stone that now is attached to the large Church structure. This small chapel is purported to be the first stone church in Scotland. On the ride back across Mull we stopped at a weaving shop. I was fascinated by the fact all wool colors were natural sheep colors and the only dyes used were flowered and root matter. This inner Hebrides owner explained to me the process of shrinking the wool then “shaving the wool. The difference between their tweeds and Harris Tweeds is 100% of her materials (sheep [see las pic with large grid pattern blanket] and flowers) came from the Isle of Mull (Harris Tweeds, while woven in the Outer Hebrides, are not natural dyes and the sheep can be outsourced from Australia and New Zealand). The natural colors are more authentic to ancient tweeds this way. The loom was a 1956 machine. I’ll do a subsequent post about my birthday 8/18 where we travelled from Oban to Glencoe. Now we are on isle of Skye

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Hello everyone, How's everybody doing? Its been quite a while since the last time I had the chance to visit our community. You see, each time I check on the your posts, I always end up with WEBPAGE ISNT AVAILABLE notice. I really have no idea what went wrong. Luckily, I am able to penetrate at this time. So I took this chance the send a post just to let everyone how much I miss checking on your posts. I hope this time, things will fall in to place on my end. Nice to be here again. 😉

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