Thanks for posting all those! I love these vicarious visits to Games I'll probably never attend in person.
MacMillan you're smartly turned-out as always, but I must say that I'm lusting after that ginormous piper's belt that your canine friend is wearing! It just about would fit me, and where else could I get a buckle that big?
About the shot of the pipe band with the picnic table in the foreground with their pipe cases on it, it's one of those things that grabs the attention of a piper, that they're both alloy cases. I'd wager that several other pipers in the band have similar alloy cases. It's one of those odd things about pipe bands, that different bands tend to use different cases, so that at a Games a piper can see several cases on a table and guess (or know) what band had left their cases there (for example the Pasadena Scots use mustard-coloured canvas bags bought at a Sporting Goods shop).
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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