By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes
Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond....
Loch Lomond is one of my favorite spots in Scotland, and a trip here would seem incomplete without returning again to those bonnie banks. For me there was a strange symmetry to this visit. The first time I came here was in 1988. My father, on the tail end of an anniversary trip with my mother, had succumbed to a heart attack, and I had flown over to conduct a funeral and bring mom home. Dad's ashes were scattered in Clydebank, and before returning home, we were taken on a restorative drive to nearby Loch Lomond. Years later we would scatter mom's ashes in the same place. Monday, a couple of days after Hama's passing, we enjoyed that same drive, soaking in the calm beauty of God's creation.
Where me and my true love were ever wont to gae
On the bonnie bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond.
Beautiful!
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