Balmaha

We took a wee trip over to Balmaha on Loch Lomond today, and dodged the showers.   Some lovely sunshine though it was quite chilly.

A small mountain garden has recently been opened in Balmaha as a tribute to Tom and Rhona Weir.  Tom's statue was unveiled last year, and at the time I blipped it.

Today I was delighted to see that someone keeps replacing his wee red toorie.


Weir was born in Springburn, Glasgow, and the younger brother of the actress Molly Weir. After service in the Royal Artillery during World War II, he worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey, before commencing a full-time career as a climber, writer and photographer.

In 1950 he was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and, in 1952, was one of the first to explore the previously closed mountain ranges of Nepal, east of Kathmandu.
(From the internet)

He wrote a column in the Scots Magazine for over fifty years, and was a kenspeckle figure in this part of the world.