Coastal Redwoods Today

[Dale Seago]

Went for a stroll with my lass at the Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve near Half Moon Bay. Beautiful warm sunny day, and I was complimented on the kilt by a number of other hikers.

My girl, and a lot of tall green stuff:




And yours truly:

[MacMillan's son]

Looks great Dale. I've never been there, I'll put it on my list of places to see this summer.

For what it's worth, I tried the link and it didn't work.

Cheers,
Brooke

[Dale Seago]

For what it's worth, I tried the link and it didn't work.

Dang, you're right. I just changed it to what seems to be a better one to a different site.

It was cool and moist enough under the redwoods that there were a lot of big banana slugs out among the ferns along the trailside.

[mookien]

Dale: Great looking outfit for the big woods. You look like a Scottish forest ranger. I like the blend between the shirt, hose, and shoes. And, the sgian dhub, ... or is that one of Rocky's new sgian brews?

That looks like a Douglas Modern. Jamais arriere! On the other hand, it looks like you're a good bit behind your lass. ;-)

John

[Dale Seago]

And, the sgian dhub, ... or is that one of Rocky's new sgian brews?

I do have one of the latter, as it happens. Just the thing for my next martial-arts training trip to Japan, where a knife would be a definite no-no. This one, though, is a stag-antler sgian made by "our very own" Taygrd:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...0&l=86ea3c07b3

That looks like a Douglas Modern. Jamais arriere!

It is. Yesterday was Douglas Grey, one of Rocky's 5-yard 16-ouncers; but this one is one of Matt Newsome's 6-yard knife-pleated 16-ouncers and is probably my "most favoritest" kilt.

On the other hand, it looks like you're a good bit behind your lass. ;-)

Matter of a call of nature, which I was better prepared to answer than she would be in such a case. No worries, I caught up.

[mookien]

Nice sgian dubh! I particularly like the rustic sheath - very authentic looking.

The Douglas Grey is the one you recently ordered, isn't it? Did you post pics? If so, I missed them.

Glad to hear that you're happy with your Douglas Modern from Matt. We're waiting for Blaylock Reproduction cloth from Dalgliesh. Our family has commissioned three Kingussie kilts from Matt, but at the moment there's some difficulty with Dalgliesh obtaining the thread. Can't catch the sheep I guess.

Oh, that explains it. I never have that problem anymore. When someone asks me, "What do you wear under your kilt?", I simply say, "Depends".

[Dale Seago]

The Douglas Grey is the one you recently ordered, isn't it? Did you post pics? If so, I missed them.

You can see 'em here -- My first wearing, at dinner with friends after a day of training in the Marin Headlands:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...0&l=998d8e7b40

We're waiting for Blaylock Reproduction cloth from Dalgliesh. Our family has commissioned three Kingussie kilts from Matt, but at the moment there's some difficulty with Dalgliesh obtaining the thread. Can't catch the sheep I guess.

Ooh, that'll be sweet. One of these days I'm going to have to get a Kingussie made.

When someone asks me, "What do you wear under your kilt?", I simply say, "Depends".

[mookien]

Douglas Grey - nice kilt. Looks very business like. I particularly like the brown accoutrement. I undoubtedly would have chosen black to match the kilt - no fashion sense here.

[Dale Seago]

I undoubtedly would have chosen black to match the kilt - no fashion sense here.

It actually took a conscious effort of will to NOT wear a black dirk belt (since I wasn't wearing the waistcoat) and sporran and go for dark brown instead. But I think the result looks better somehow.

And I do like Rocky's work, AND customer service. I had a 3-week rush on the order; Rocky wrote and said the particular fabric I wanted (Strathmore) wasn't in stock -- which was no surprise to me -- and had to be ordered from Scotland.

It still was right about 3 weeks from order to delivery.

[cessna152towser]

Looking good.