TRAVELLING WITH...LAURA
'But they shouldn't call that lovely place the Avenue. There is no meaning in a place like that. They should call it - let me see - The White Way of Delight. Isn't that a nice imaginative name?' - L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908) This is Laura and she works in a Scottish Library, in Nairn, to be precise. If you happen to be there, please, pay a visit! The moment I have read her fictional character's name, I smiled with joy; and I kept on doing that while picturing the poetic setting she suggested: 'I would love Anne Shirley to come and visit my garden here in Scotland in the Spring time when the Plum trees are full of frothy scented blossoms. A beautiful scene in the book has captivated me since I first read it as a child. Riding through a flowery avenue of blossom trees with her newly acquainted adoptive guardian Matthew, Anne earnestly proclaims it to be "the White Way of Delight"... Her flowery language and eagernes...