Glasgow, wildness and wet, and Mull

This morning, to Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Museum, which is a magnificent piece of Victoriana.

I was especially interested to see all the Charles Rennie Mackintosh - influenced decorative art - a different brand of Art Nouveau to Prague - here's a panel for the Argyle Street tearooms; 

here some pieces of glass from James Couper & Sons Clutha range (as sold at Liberty's).

And - although I dutifully spent time with the Glasgow Boys section - I really loved an 1838 Turner, The Pifferafi - here are some bathers from it.

Then the train to Oban.  I was super-excited to be traveling up Loch Lomond, and to glimpse Inversnaid at the other side of the loch, through the trees (I have an article about Hopkins's poem "Inversnaid" coming out in Victorian Poetry any moment - an eco-crit reading which is especially hostile to rhododendrons, an invasive species - they are everywhere, and blossoming beautifully at the moment)

And then the ferry to Mull - here are some view around our hotel.

I love these ferns, in particular - they are part of the whole temperate rain forest eco system on the West Coast - I've learned so much about these rain forests recently from Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain.

Bluebells are everywhere.  We don't expect this weather to last, incidentally, but it's been glorious today.