Great tour and tour guide at the Speyside Cooperage not far from Aberlour, Scotland. Funny thing, there’s one in Jackson, Ohio. Another funny thing, I painted the guide’s portrait and posted this up here at 30,000 on the flight from Edinburgh to Philadelphia.
Our guide at Speyside Cooperage
Let’s just leave it at that.
Outbound ferry leaving Oban at 9:49 am under windy and rainy conditions as seen through the main parlor’s windows, a quick, freehand iPad drawing in Sketch Club app using an Apple Pencil after breakfast.
Outbound Ferry
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Yea, thanks to Storm Boelo and that 12-hour power outage it caused during our stay in Portree, Isle of Skye from October 22 – 26, 2026, I had some time to draw on my iPad – an opportunity to see the extraordinary in the ordinary.
I’m not quite sure what happened to the pheasant’s long feathers.
Inspired by a drive earlier today through St. Andrews in Scotland.
Fore
Looks like Annyth caught me at the Ferryhill House Hotel Bar in Aberdeen, Scotland drawing “Fore.”
Dave McMurray
It was so intense that night, I had to pick just one of them to spend some extra time with on my iPad in Sketch Club. So I picked Dave McMurray on saxophone from Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble. Check them out, if you’re not already familiar with them. That was October 10, 2026 at Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, OH, oh, and Jorma Kaukonen sat in on the following:
A Plain Buggie
“A Plain Buggie” Sketch Club Stats
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a wee dram
A wee dram is a traditional Scottish term for a small, single drink of whisky. In this phrase, “wee” means small or little, and a “dram” refers to a serving of spirits.
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There’s diarrhea; and then there’s explosive diarrhea.
Likewise, there’s logorrhea, the medical and psychological term for unstoppable, excessive talking or extreme wordiness. It comes from Greek roots meaning “word” and “flow”. Is there explosive logorrhea? And, if so, is there explosive presidential logorrhea, the likes of which we have grown accustomed to morning, noon, and night?
On the Throne
