Inspiration Blog

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...

Gillespie pipes – Earl of Blackhall Connection with the MacPherson Clan in Scotland.  Yes, pipes.

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

Ireland, family, hospitality Listen In 2002 I visited Ireland with a theater group. Audio of recollections and more hints of Gillespie...

Hail to thee, thou sun of the seasons, As you make your way across the shining sky. Your steps are strong on the wings of the heavens....

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