Inspiration Blog

It isn’t advertised on a map or in tourist brochures. Our guides knew about this labyrinth constructed in recent years. Getting there...

Hillside Rock Art Bronze Age Temple Wood Stone Circle Bronze Age Fairy tree leading to burial mounds Picnic in this house at Kilmory Orb...

Hill of Dunadd This is a shot looking southeast at the Hill of Dunadd and the Glen. This area is the birthplace of Scotland. The Scotti...

My kin made these – flint ax 10,000 years ago, bronze small ax 4000 years ago This first mornng here on the Island of Iona I listened to...

A week at Cluny Hill in Forres, Scotland – one of the two Findhorn Foundation sites here in Northern Scotland. The past two days have...

Cluny Garden Spring And now a week’s stay in a unique internationally recognized spiritual community, learning centre and eco-village of...

My first experience of staying in the Highlands came sitting on the porch at the Inverness Ghilles B & B and looking out at the Ness...

Train ride Edinburgh to Inverness May 29, 2013. Entering the Highlands in the Badenoch region that research says some of the Gillespie...

Edinburgh Castle Painting It was with mixed feelings that I left Edinburgh two days ago. It is the Scottish City I return to visit time...

Even with the internet, even with friends who travel and tell stories of far away places, sometimes there is a call to open wings and fly...

Ah, at last…..Eldinburgh, or Leith to be more exact. The docks area, Georgian architecture in flux. But it feels so civilized in this...

This is at Chartres – a marker for the pilgrim’s trail. This one is heading south to Spain, but I am not distracted. I am still moving...

Across from the Louvre is a foot bridge Pont des Artes in the heart of the old city. What began as a public art exhibit using locks with...

This is the high point of my art quest in Paris. The Cartier Foundation Contemporary Art Space to view the Ron Mueck exhibit The building...

Salvador Dali May I ask you a few questions? Yes, but don’t try and uncover my secret.   S.D. Wandering around Montmarte, especially the...

Hotel des Artes elevator, Montmarte Only one Parisian is rude at the information desk at the Abbesses Metro Station and I think she...

Gillespie is an unusual Celtic name. The family story says we came from Scotland. But there is a big mystery. Records beyond four...