The holy pencil

Spent a wonderful day today with my daughter in the north part of the island of Mull, visiting Lucy Mackenzie's wonderful garden, Lip Na Cloiche near Ulva Ferry, the beautiful flower meadows at Treshnish where hundreds of Fragrant Orchids were in flower among a multitude of other species, the wide white sandy beach at Calgary from where the inhabitants of the nearby crofting township of Invea were removed in the Clearances of the early 1800s and departed from the pier to a new life in Canada, and ended up with a meal at the timber-built Glenforsa Hotel adjacent to the local airstrip.

The weather was glorious throughout the day - I went out on the 'Coruisk' and came back on the 'Isle of Mull', both journeys in brilliant sunshine.

My Blip today is of the remarkable Church of Kilmore, at Dervaig. There has been a church in Dervaig since the 1200s, but the current building, which was designed in 1904 by the architect Peter MacGregor Chalmers, was completed by September 1905.