Tuesday 1/2

[The "Greenkeepers Cottage" we are staying in in Ayr]

[Paisley]

Location:Loch Lomond, Buchanan country

Monday

[Back wall of the homes at George Place.]




[In front of George Place.]





[The home built by John Reid, Fred's great-grandfather.]



[The High Kirk in Stevenston.]





[Ardeer Church, Stevenston. Also built by John Reid.]









[Hills above Largs, home of Conny Kerr, former wife of dad's deceased cousin, Ian Kerr.]




















































[Conny's photo of the Buchanan visit in 1979. Ian on the bottom left. Conny sporting the red 76 shirt.]











[Fred in Conny's home 31 years later. The photos in the background are Katherine Ross (dad's great-grandmother) and Samuel Bell (her husband).]























[Buchanans 2010 with Conny Kerr.]














[Conny's wall had a collage of all her house guests over the years. Here we are again in 1979.]










[Back to Stevenston. The High Kirk; where Samuel Reid is buried.]







[Samuel Reid's grave.]



























[Overlooking Stevenston from the High Kirk.]











[Catherine Ross's grave.]












[Elizabeth Bell's grave.]














[John Reid's Grave.]







































[At dad's elementary school. This is where dad sharpened his etcher for his slate as a student.]

























[Walking to the Stevenston coast.]




































































[A wild haggis.]






























































[Stevenston dunes and the burn Dad jumped over as a wee lad.]












[Stevenston coast. Where dad was baptized.]












[Dad and his childhood friend, Jim McMurdoh, who grew up at No. 1 George Place.]

Location:No. 5 George Place, etc.

Sunday

[View from our home base, the "Greenskeeper Cottage." The building in the background is the clubhouse to the golf course we border.]

[Outside Robbie Burns birthplace (2 minute walk from our cottage).]

[Inside the cottage.]

[Spooky garments of some sort representing the four Burns children born in the cottage - including Annabella.]

[Buchanan plaid Haggis platter decorated with a line from Robert Burns poem "To a Haggis."]

[The old kirk featured in Tam o' Shanter. The window on the front of the church is from where the Devil played the pipes for the witches' dance.]

A winnock-bunker in the east,
There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast;
A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large,
To gie them music was his charge:
He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl,
Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.

[One of the tombstones near the kirk.]

[Tam O' Shanter, Souter Johnie and their doppelgangers.]

[Brig O' Doon (bridge over the river Doon).]

[The Buchanans and a random Scottish couple.]

Location:Ayr, Alloway