Another good walk

The weekend starts here!

Well, mine has! That's my shadow taking in the wonderful view. Tilly and I had a blissful walk this afternoon. We and six others had the whole beach to ourselves. Magic!

This picture looks west towards North Berwick and the Bass Rock,

and this one looks back the other way in an easterly direction.

We walked around the headland and sat on a sandstone bench which looks out to sea and across the bay to Dunbar and Belhaven Beach. It is a place to sit, ponder and dream. The curlews were calling and an impressive selection of seabirds were busy on the rocks below.

The final stretch of our walk today was along a very different beach. I always enjoy the contrast between the vast expanse of sand of Ravensheugh and this other beach which is rocky, full of shells and tree-lined.

The daylight hours are definitely lengthening now. As I write it is 16.45 and the light is still good and the sky is duck-egg blue. A good start to the weekend!

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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!

Colonsay postcards - on arrival

The first thing I do, once we have unpacked our car, which has been groaning with all the stuff we need for a week's stay in the holiday cottage, is head for the outer gardens of Colonsay House. It is a place of wonder for me! I particularly love the leaves of the giant rhododendrons. There are many different varieties, all planted in the early 1930s. The outer gardens are generally overgrown, having had little tending over the decades. That makes them even more magical! The old woodmill falls apart a little more every year, but that's fine by me because I love corrugated iron and especially if it's rusted! And of course the bees. Colonsay's beekeeper, Andrew Abrahams, has one of his apiaries on the edge of the pine wood. So lovely - the hum of busy bees and the heady smell of the pines. We are here - finally! Delayed by four months by the wretched virus, but now I am on holiday! Hooray!

Found items IAVOM

I am on holiday on the Inner Hebridean island of Colonsay. It is my happy place. Thoughts of Colonsay rattle around in my head each and every day I am not here! I haven't got a vase to share this week but some lovely things I have found over the past few days, which are just as beautiful as a vase of flowers! I hope you agree! Here are some leaves of giant rhododendrons, growing in the outer gardens of Colonsay House. Some skeleton leaves of magnolia. The dried stem of a kelp seaweed. A couple of conkers (can never resist those!), and a branch heavily populated by a number of lichens. The air on Colonsay is so clean that lichens flourish here!

the running wave

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