Misty Scenes - Sepia Saturday

 This week's prompt photograph from Sepia Saturday  shows a vintage car on  the road with a misty background of hills in the distance.  I have featured cars in my collection  quite recently, so here my focus was first on "High in the Misty Highlands" - a line  from the song "Scotland the Brave" . 

 

 

My cousin's first ever car - a 1932 Morris Minor. 

 

The photograph was taken near Inverary in the west of Scotland on the "Rest and Be Thankful Road"  -  It gets its name as it was once a place where people  would stop, rest and be thankful that they had  reached the top of their climb through the hilly pass between two glens (valleys).    

 

It's a very popular viewpoint which follows the line of the old military road built in 1753 by General Wade and his soldiers after the unsuccessful  1745 Jacobite Rebellion to put Bonnie Prince Charlie on the throne.   Now it is more notorious for landslips, heavy snowfalls in winter   and road closure  warnings, involving a long tour to get to the coast and the ferries to the islands.

 

 

 

 A mist  across Loch Awe in the West Highlands of Scotland. 

 

A view of Loch Etive  with misty  hills of Glencoe in the background - and seals on the rocks in the middle of the loch.  

 

 South to the Scottish Borders where I live today. 

 

 

 

 High on t he hill, at Penielheugh, near Jedburgh., you can just make out through the mist the 150 tower of the Waterloo Monument, built to commemorate  the Duke of Wellington's victory over  Napoleon in 1815.  It was built between 1817 and 1824 and looks over lush farmland and rolling hills - a notable landmark from many parts of the Scottish Borders. 

 

 

 

 Here is my Aunt Peggy perched on the wall a overlooking the most iconic image of the Scottish Borders - Scott's View. 

 Peggy was making her first and only visit back to  Britain after emigrating to Australia  with her husband in 1948.  

Below  is the view we were hoping she would see. 

 

 

 

Scott's  View was named after the 19th century writer Sir Walter Scott.  You look across to the triple Eildon Hills (no - you cannot see them in my earlier picture), with the River Tweed winding below.  You do catch a glimpse of the river in the bottom right. 

A trivia fact - the Romans called the ,Eildon Hills - 

Trimontium - the three hills.  

 

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