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Monday walk

Lovely sunshine today, but it's blowing a gale.  This morning the dogs and I set off on one of our favourite walks around the huge double-sized field, just south of the village.  It was a bit of a struggle with the wind.  In fact we were buffeted around the field rather than walked!

There are some long stretches of lovely old stone walls around the perimeter of the field.  And, as always, fabulous views across the Firth of Forth, where the wind was whipping up foam crested waves, and the best bit - snowdrops through the woods.  Actually, there was another really good thing - the song of the skylark, high in the blue above.  

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