I need to go back to Scotland just to take pictures of the stained glass in St. Michael's church in Linlithgow. I want to make cross-stitches of two of the windows there.
This one might be my favorite ever, made to commemorate a Scottish natural historian.
And this, which is just glorious.
(Aside from the glass, the stonework in both of these is something special. This is just a small church beside the ruins of a palace, but it's very lovely.
So ah, if any of y'all are in Scotland and can pop out to Linlithgow, I'd pay money for some high-res pictures of these.
this is the guy being commemorated. Very neat dude, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's teachers.
oooh, lovely
don't think Linlithgow was someplace we made it to... though it was around 36 years ago now, so who knows with my memory
We just stopped there on the Outlander tour, because the ruins of Linlithgow Palace were used for some interiors for the show.
THAT SECOND WINDOW
RIGHT?
Should be a quilt.
do you know which natural historian that first one is in honor of?
I linked him
Charles Wyville Thomson
whoops, missed that
how dare you, by the way, now I want good enough pictures to make a quilt of that second window
my own pictures
my favorite bit is the door with the river flowing through it
Ive been home 3 months and im still obsessed with these two windows.