Sunday 24.6.2018

Had hoped for a late evening walk up Bennachie on the 21st to mark the solstice but despite blue skies and sunshine the wind was so strong we decided it would be too much like hard work.
Indeed, the wind persisted though on Friday at least it wasn`t going for the jugular so we managed a trot round the woods...cue yet more tree pics...

....and there were lines and rows and shadows too.

This evening, after the tension of the football (tension? what tension? 6-1! even if it was "only" Panama) a walk the perfect antidote. Calm and warm,bird chorus in full swing, butterflies fluttering over the waist high cow parsley, the air thick with scent...and those trees! Plus a little natural sculpture.....

And tonight it is still and warm with a nearly full golden moon hanging against the indigo blue of an endless Scottish summer night. Don`t really want to go to bed........

Sunday 17.6.2018

If you can`t decide where to to start throw all the plates in the air and go for a walk. By the time you return they`ve usually lined themselves up in order of priority.
In any case it was much too good a morning to ignore: we were out before nine, sun shining, fresh breeze, grass still wet, birds-a-singing and a-tweeting.

Could have just stood and stared at the light coming through the trees in the woods.....


....but hey ho - things to do. Now, where are those plates........

Friday 15.6.2018

Out late morning with a promise of rain later in the day (though it hasn`t arrived yet) not to mention a football match or two to watch but it was perfect walking weather: a mild but blustery fly-dispersing wind on the way up the road and then warm and still in the woods which are at their `summeriest` - colours and scents, light and shade and loud bird song all the way round. We may only be 6 days away from the longest day of the year but hopefully there`ll be a bit more of this before we have to batten down the hatches.

Sunday 3.6.2018

Back from www.therewillbechickens.blogspot.co.uk and a first walk in the woods this afternoon. Summer arrived while we were away and the woods are in full leaf and blossom: gorse, broom, hawthorn and elder and bright green larch needles while the beech leaves are already turning a darker green.
Paths have been mowed so there was a wonderful smell of fresh cut grass, a breeze to counteract the slight stuffiness of the overcast but warm day and birdsong accompanying it all.


And perhaps best of all, it`s a good year for the "family" laburnum.