Late summer colour

The weather has definitely changed today! It's pretty miserable outside but the garden will be welcoming the rain. Everything is so dry, even the leaves on trees are drooping which I don't think I have ever seen before. In the fields around here the farmers are harvesting like mad, trying to get everything in before the weekend because the forecast is not good.

I have tried to keep up with the sweet peas in the garden. They have been blooming for weeks now and I have lost count of how many heavenly smelling bunches I have picked. We have had some strong winds over the last week so I have had to put some extra stakes in the ground to stop the cloud of colour from blowing over. So far so good.

Two or three sturdy sunflower plants have sprung up in the garden, sewn by the birds taking seeds from the feeders earlier in the year. They have grown in random places but this one chose to grow next to the sweet peas.

I have been blackberrying again and today made some jelly. Two pounds of beautiful berries plus three cooking apples have made nearly four pounds of gloriously jewel-like jelly.

A steaming cauldron of luscious colour

bottled to serve as a lovely reminder, later in the year, of a happy time spent picking berries on a hot, late summer's day.

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In a vase on Monday - colour

The intense colours in my vase this week come from nasturtiums, sweetpeas and a single glorious zinnia! Their beauty and love of life speak for themselves and need no further words from me! Enjoy!

Coastal walk from Gullane to North Berwick

By the time I have walked about four miles, my toes are screaming at me - it's the arthritis, you see. One of the joys of being that little bit older than I was. However, for a long time, I have been keen to walk along the beaches, and follow the coastal path, between Gullane and North Berwick. So, having worked out the tide times, I decided today was the day, and off we went. Below is our starting point, the bay at Gullane. It's a lovely beach, very popular with dog walkers. This is looking east, the direction Tilly and I were going to take. Looking back, up the Forth, the unmistakable bulk of Arthur's Seat, and Edinburgh's skyline, just clear enough to see. For most of the walk, there is the choice between wandering along a series of beaches, or following a path along the top of each. There's no denying it, at heart I am a shell-seeker. I have loads of shells at home. We lived on one of the out islands in the Bahamas for a just over a year, ...

Possibly the last post and a sizzlingly hot vase on Monday

The border in our tiny garden is in an in-between phase at the moment and not very colourful, but elsewhere there are pops of high summer colour and I have brought them together in my vase today. The running wave uses Blogger as it's vehicle and they are changing the way a post is created but unfortunately I cannot make the new format work. I can't progress beyond the title! I cannot navigate to the main body of the post to create text. The new template has no prompts for adding photos, weblinks, to format the text, change font etc. It may be my old MacBook that's as fault but I can't do anything about that!! Are any other IAVOM bloggers who use Blogger having the same problems? I have tried, three times, to contact Blogger through their 'Help' prompt and received no feedback or contact whatsoever. This post is using the old 'Legacy' format, which no longer permits any kind of formatting of text, and so after four attempts I have finally manage...

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