Kevin Donaldson

DALE HOLLOW DAM - Celina, Tennessee. 1980’s. Made with my old Konica 35mm, Tri-X B/W film, developed myself. Water coming over the spillways was rare in those days. #dalehollowlake #corpsofengineers @USACEHQ

@JamesMelville Love the beauty, but your statement about losing it hits home. I was made aware of the attached fact during my days in economic development in Clay County (Tennessee, US). Very concerning.

Glorious evening across the old family farmlands of North East Fife. Our national food security depends on fertile farmland like this. We lose it at our own peril.

@Driftless_Golf Been there but didn’t get to see that view. Glad you did.

A literal hell of a view.

@TimelessTrvlr Angel Oak just outside of town is a wonder of nature. Some of the limbs go underground and then resurface.

Charleston, South Carolina never tried to become anything else. It just stayed itself.....and that’s what gives it weight.

@TimelessTrvlr Visited there in March. Great town.

@ScotlandUnwrap Saw this first-hand in October. A moving experience.

Scotland, without trending audio. 📍Blair Castle - Blair Atholl, Perthshire. #scotland

@CfUmis_ @VisitScotland We made the reverse trip via bus last October. Bucket list for me and hope to make a second one, more concentrated on where my 600-year ago ancestors lived.

@VisitScotland Hello Scotland! In August I have two days in Edinburgh (12-14/8) Then I have one week, one car and one wife. Please guide us from east coast via highlands, Inverness, down through the western (skip northern) coast, maybe an Island or two down to Glasgow. Thanks

@BloomSerenity1 A great walk up that hill.

Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@JamesMelville Didn’t get to play while there, but it was a huge thrill to get to walk up and back 1-2 and 17-18, AND to get a photo with my wife at the Swilcan Bridge.

The most famous view in golf. 18th green. The Old Course. St Andrews.

@TimelessTrvlr In danger of losing its charm. Still a cool place if you choose the right places. Traffic is a nightmare.

Nashville, Tennessee. Southern charm or turning into the next tourist trap? Which one?

@TimelessTrvlr It’s a gorgeous place. I hope to return.

No lies detected.

@JamesMelville @UndisScot Looks like my kind of place.

There is something very reassuring about an old fashioned and well stocked independent bookshop. Topping & Company Booksellers (St Andrews, Fife) is a perfect example of this. Absolutely wonderful bookshop. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@PrettyCitiesX Been there. Hope to go back.

Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@BarssFreddie Been there. Hope to go back.

Ballachulish Glen Coe, Scotland . My fav weekend stopover location . photo by Beauty of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@JamesMelville I hope to return for a longer stay some day. Only had a few hours when we were there and we spent most of that time at the Old Course. I want to return to the Kingdom of Fife and research my 500-year-old roots there.

I know I’m biased because it’s my hometown, but in my opinion, St Andrews in Fife is the best town in Britain. It has everything. Ancient history. Beautiful Georgian architecture. The home of golf. West Sands beach (immortalised in the opening scene of Chariots of Fire). Staggeringly beautiful enormous skylines. Endless great pubs, restaurants, independent shops and a vibrancy that is sadly lacking in so many towns right now. It’s an unbelievably special place. ♥️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@PrettyCitiesX It’s quite a stimulating walk.

The Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@SamaHoole I ate haggis for 8 days on a recent trip to the homeland. I’m actually a Tennessee hillbilly with Scottish roots dating back over 500 years. I loved haggis and blood sausage. Found out a lot about “hillbilly” while we were there, too - Scottish tour guide and Irish driver.

Haggis is the single food item currently banned from import into the United States of America because it contains sheep's lung. Sheep's lung has been declared, by the USDA, an inedible offal. The ban was imposed in 1971 and remains in place. The Scottish reaction to this ban has, for fifty years, ranged from bafflement to mild amusement. Sheep's lung has been eaten in Scotland, daily, without incident, for approximately eight hundred years. It is the binding ingredient that holds the minced sheep's heart, liver, onion, oatmeal, suet, and spices together inside the stomach casing. It is the reason haggis exists. Scottish children are fed haggis on Burns Night, 25th of January, every year. They eat it at school. At home. At pubs. At weddings. At every ceremony the national poet is toasted at. Burns Night is, in Britain, effectively the last public occasion on which a whole generation still encounters a dish made from an animal's lungs, heart, and liver, stuffed into its own stomach, and eaten communally. This used to be normal food. Every rural British household knew some version of it. Faggots in the Midlands. Brawn everywhere. Black pudding in Lancashire. Drisheen in the West Country. The whole animal was used because the whole animal was available and it was cheaper than buying specific cuts. Now, once a year, the Scottish remind everyone else that this food exists. The rest of the year, it is marketed as a quaint regional oddity for tourists. The nutritional profile of a traditional haggis is substantial. Per 100 grams: 14g protein, 22g fat, significant B12, iron, zinc, and the specific fat-soluble vitamins that concentrate in organ meat. The Americans have been missing out for fifty years because of a regulatory decision made in 1971 on the basis of a sanitary concern that was probably already obsolete. The Scots have been eating it the whole time. The Scots have not died of it.

@TimelessTrvlr If it has a viewer rating I can live with. Hope it will.

@TimelessTrvlr My favorite of all the castles we visited in Scotland. To be fair, I am a Highlander movie and TV series fan.

Eilean Donan might be the most iconic castle in Scotland....a stone fortress rising from a tiny island where three sea lochs meet, glowing in the mountains at sunset.