August 15th 2015

Sir Walter Scott 

Born on this day in 1771, Sir Walter Scott has
left the world words that roll off the tongue--
though sometimes we don't know how or why
or when we first heard them quoted to us:

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive."

                          OR

"Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own , my native land!

                                   -- from Canto VI
                        (Lay of the Last Minstrel)

This Victorian Gothic monument is located on 

Princes St. in  Edinburgh. John Steell created the

likeness of Scott in marble. Construction began in 1840

and the tribute was inaugurated on August 15, 1846.

Photographs are happy reminders of adventure.

May you discover Scotland and all its writers--someday.