Name Forever Dear

Robert Burns’ 260th birthday - 25th January, 1759

 

Tonight is Burns Night...All over Scotland, people are celebrating the National Bard’s Birthday, with whisky, neeps (turnips) and haggis, and Burns’ own “Address To The Haggis”, the “Great Chieftain o’ The Puddin’ Race”, will be recited.

 

I took this shot of Scotland’s national flower, or “Flower of Scotland”, [Onopordum acanthium] in early July, 2018, about 100m down my track - 16 miles from where Burns was born in Alloway, Ayr.

 

 

“Hail, Caledonia, name forever dear...!”

‘Prologue’ 1787

Robert Burns

 

Happy birthday, Rabbie. 💙

 

South Carrick Hills

SW Scotland

Done