A Scottish sky in shades of blue and greys so exquisite and easy on the eye I would like to step into its calm.

All credit to Frank Heumann)

For Cheri who is sitting in the hall, in the hall for daring to comment that a plant may be less relevant than a person, for daring to speak up at all.  Challenging the status quo has never been popular as William Wallace (1272-1305) Scottish rebel and freedom fighter discovered to his cost: He was hung, drawn and quartered, further unspeakable things done to him while still alive, his head to end up on a pike atop London Bridge.

So Cheri, we salute you and fight on; fight on for the waiting room people, fight for the plants (why not) and fight to quell tyrannical  nurses who would silence your freedom, fight from your hall!  Freeeeeeeedom!!!!!!

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Somone asked for colourful and colourful you can have - Tobermory, Isle of Mull in the inner Hebrides.  Colourful to look at (no one seems to know where the idea of multi coloured frontages came from) but I blame the Irish (see Dublin doors).  Colourful history too.  Legend has it that the wreck of a Spanish galleon, laden with gold, lies somewhere in the mud at the bottom of Tobermory Bay - although the ship’s true identity, and cargo, are in dispute. By some accounts, the Florencia (or Florida, or San Francisco), a member of the defeated Spanish Armada fleeing the English fleet in 1588, anchored in Tobermory to take on provisions. Following a dispute over payment (or possibly, according to local folklore, a spell cast by the witch Dòideag), the ship caught fire and the gunpowder magazine exploded, sinking the vessel. In her hold, reputedly, was £300,000 in gold bullion. Other sources claim the vessel was the San Juan de Sicilia (or San Juan de Baptista), which, records indicate, carried troops, not treasure.Whatever the true story, no significant treasure has ever been recovered in Tobermory Bay.