IT'S A LONG LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY & OTHER PLACES
The long way to Tipperary.
A long gorgeous way
to a deer. I found this picture online & couldn’t resist using it.
The walkway off the ferry from Oban to Craignure on the Isle of Mull, Scotland.
Walking down the Royal
Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The long walk through
Prince’s Street Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The battlefield at
Culloden, Scotland – the long path past the mass grave markers of those clan members
who fought in vain to restore Bonnie Prince Charlie to Scotland’s throne. The battle was over in 40 minutes with
terrible consequences for the Jacobites.
A long walk down the aisle of St. Magnus Cathedral in
Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland.
An interesting alleyway
between St. Magnus Cathedral & the church cemetery in Kirkwall, Orkney,
Scotland.
No actual walkway,
path, or road here, but the miles on the sign post speak of long treks – 874m to
Land’s End at the other end of Scotland; or by water - 8m to Orkney; 152m to
Shetland; & 3200m to New York. Actually it’s 3,175m, but close enough.
Speaking of miles by water – the long wake behind the Island Princess as she sails down the Inland Passage from Ketchikan, Alaska to Vancouver.
:->
La Nightingail
P.S.
The entrance into the
gated community of “Sonora Hills” where I live.
Turn left at the stop sign way on down there. Pass the clubhouse and pool, turn left
again. Turn right at the stop sign and
we’re the second house on the left.
:->
How many long paths you've found for the meme! Good to see. I also just had a jolt, I can type as many characters as I wish now in a comment! Thank heavens! I'm a wordy commentor! I''m so glad to see you sharing here again!
ReplyDeleteI know - not being limited to what we can say here is really great. I do have to say, though, before, when we had to limit what we could say, it was a good exercise in editing. And I'm really happy to be back & the new blog system I'm using now has advantages over the old one, so I'm happy about that too. :)
DeleteYou look so happy standing there by the water! The one with the deer is my favorite of your longs, I think.
ReplyDeleteIt was a great trip & we were headed over to Orkney where we were going to see what I was most anxious & interested to see - 5000 year old standing stones & the remains of the homes where the people who probably erected them, lived. But yes, the photo I found online of the deer standing at the end of the snow-covered grove of trees is absolutely beautiful & fit the prompt so perfectly, how could I resist using it?!! :)
DeleteThis was a terrific medley of long view images. It's funny how many travel photos find a similar perspective. I trust that the hills in Sonora Hills are not too steep. :—)
ReplyDelete:-) No, the hills within "Sonora Hills" are gentle, but some of the surrounding hills can be a bit steep. "Sonora Hills' sits at about 1500 ft. elevation. Siting at my computer looking out the window at the surrounding hills I can see Mt. Elizabeth which rises to 4,875 ft.. The largest shopping mall in the area sits at 2000 ft., & the home we moved from recently, 6 miles away, is at 3000 ft - right at the snowline which is one of the reasons we moved! :)
DeleteWonderful photos. I visited Britain back in my youth, and I think I may have a photo of me at a similar signpost from Land's End (in Cornwall). Also visited Edinburgh. Tipperary I'll never forget, not because I've been there, but because of a silly story in an English school book from my "junior" years of learning the language. They spun a story around someone having to travel a long way to "tip a rary", making the "rary" mean some sort of rare animal (I seem to recall some hippopotamus-like creature from the illustration) that for some reason (that I've forgotten) had to be tipped over the edge of a cliff... Well, it did serve the purpose of getting the song to stick in my mind!!! (LOL)
ReplyDeleteHow funny - the story about tipping a rary. Sometimes you have to wonder who dreams these things up? I don't know when, exactly, I became familiar with the song, but it was brought back into my conscious memory when I saw the movie "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming" so many years ago. I loved that movie & watch it again every once in a while. :)
DeleteWhat an imaginative "take" on this week's theme! I enjoyed seeing all your different images, and especially the Scottish ones. I have a very similar photograph to you at John O'Groats - but mine is at the other end of the country - at Land's End. I find hearing sung "A Long Way to Tipperary" very moving, and makes me think of all the thousands of soldiers in the First World War who never made it back home.
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