SCONE PALACE NATURE TRAIL, May 10th 2014
Channel: semw52
Date: 05/07/2014

The gardens at Scone Palace are  wonderful with such a variety of plants and flowers, trees and shrubs and gentle walks into every nook and cranny. On this walk I am following a nature trail--it's spring and the wild garlic flowers are in abundance and  other less dominant wild flowers can be found scattered here and there. IN other videos I walk around the David Douglas trail where even the Giant Redwood can easily be seen--graceful and soft. 
As I walk about I am aware that the landscape would have been different when my x 24 great grandmother was here,( the wealthy Matilda of Huntington-great niece of William The Conqueror), with her 2nd husband David I of Scotland. BUT like the icing on the cake which can easily be reshaped and sculptured--these gardens have also evolved with time and changing cultures. However, the bedrock , the geology  remains roughly the same apart from a few  passive effects of erosion on the surface and the River Tay  may have altered its course a few times. I have walked in the footsteps of my Ancestors here and feel the history all around me, bouncing of the ground, the trees   etc...I can imagine Matilda dancing around in her medieval dresses listening to the music of the birds, ----but Scone Palace was a very important place in Scottish history--it would have seen many events, many nobles, princes and Kings and experienced  many episodes of business and activity as Kings were enthroned, where they rested fresh from a bloody battle.---And when the Augustian monks were here another era of quietness and peace