Autumn beach
Autumn colours on the beach this afternoon.
Walked to where the kids gather and light fires. It’s a nice south facing spot.
And there are great views over to Dalmeny, Edinburgh and Leith.
Just wish they’d clear up afterwards.
Eating late at the Ivy
Ivy flowers on a south facing wall by the beach.
Still buzzing with life today: wasps, bees and flies.
More on rivers
Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment…
Passenger 2
Passenger concert with Maire and
the kids last night.
O2 Academy Glasgow.
Weekend in Wester Ross
A few pictures from our weekend in Wester Ross.
Walk up past Eas Dubh waterfall at Gruinard Bay.
Shaggy and I haven’t a Scooby
Some fungi outside the office last week.
First one is a shaggy ink cap.
Not sure about the other one. Mower had got them when I went for a look the next day!
Walk in the woods
Walk in the woods with the dog.
Watched a group of bullfinches feeding on rowan berries.
Brambles
Picking brambles last weekend. Seems the sunny summer has been good for them. There are loads this year.
Put some in a crumble, some went to bramble gin. Like sloe gin but with brambles. Also tried it with some plums.
A week on they are looking very colourful.
Stone sharks
In Wester Ross for the weekend.
We came across stone sculptures amongst the rocks and dunes.
Stone sharks, a turtle a starfish surfaced on the close cropped turf.
The kids wanted to make their own – on a smaller scale.
We scanned the sea – no basking sharks today. There were however great skuas, black throated divers and a lone black guillemot.
Above the dunes, by a burn, a flock of twite were busy diplaying drabness as an artform.
Ian McCall 