We saw only a few real Highland cattle, and I didn't take any pictures of them, so I'm appropriating this photo from Google just so you know what they look like:
I took waaaay too many photos of wildflowers and gardens, so I won't bore people by sharing them all. But I was most astonished by the wild foxglove (digitalis) growing everywhere, like a weed, often pushing its way up through the bracken. In all the years I've read stories that used the word "bracken," I never knew it just meant ferns.
We saw some beautiful formal gardens at the castles we visited, including Blair Castle (posted earlier). Probably the most beautiful gardens were at Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye, but it was POURING when we would have walked around there, so we had to pass. This garden is at Cawdor Castle near Inverness. Also raining.
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