More Stunning Photos around Scotland from BBC News!

Every week, BBC News in Scotland asks people to send in their photos for publication. Scotland is a beautiful place, and these pictures convey that. Like last week, of course I have to start the photos with a dog. :)
   FUN FACT: Scotland, most northerly of the four parts of the United Kingdom, occupying about one-third of the island of Great Britain. The name Scotland derives from the Latin Scotia, land of the Scots, a Celtic people from Ireland who settled on the west coast of Great Britain about the 5th century CE.  Now, onto the photos>>

Image copyrightURSULA DANTE

Image captionUrsula Dante's photograph of her dog Rudi on a beach near Prestwick

Image copyrightNEIL MCKELLAR

Image captionNeil McKellar, from Motherwell, took this picture of a deer on a family visit to Carmichael Estate in Biggar

Image copyrightJAMES NANGLE

Image captionA sleepy otter on Yell, Shetland, photographed by James Nangle

Image copyrightCOLIN DONALDSON

Image captionBrothers Simon and Colin Hood and their friend John Macgregor completing their final Munro, Spidean a' Choire Leith on Liathaich in Torridon, in a photo by Colin Donaldson

Image copyrightMEGAN KIRKALDY

Image captionCloud clings to Meall na Teanga in this image by Megan Kirkaldy, from Fort William, taken above Loch Lochay

Image copyrightADAM DABROWSKI

Image captionFields of barley at Cleish, Kinross, photographed by Adam Dabrowski

Image copyrightJOHN JOHNSTONE

Image captionA scene from John Johnstone's trip to the remote archipelago of St Kilda

Image copyrightCHRISTINE SCHERER

Image captionFog cleared for Christine Scherer to take her photo at Glen Turret near Crieff

Image copyrightHELEN THOM

Image captionAn image to sum up summertime in Scotland - glorious one minute then torrential rain the next - says Helen Thom who took her picture from South Queensferry