Skip to main content

Early morning skies

I was awake early this morning, and although it looked a bit grey and cold outside, I thought a walk with Tilly, round a couple of fields, would be a good start to the day.  By the time we walked down the drive and out of the wood, the sky was clearing from the west.

To the east, it was still dark grey, with the colour of the rising sun reflecting off the cloud.  I love the high, open skies of the east coast.  They give a wonderful sense of space.  I think they are very photogenic, and I couldn't choose which photos to show, so I've overdone it a bit!
This is the buzzard which patrols the drive and fields along the road between the village and North Berwick.  He was standing on the straw bales, enjoying the early morning sun on his back.  You can just see the glint in his eye!



Comments

  1. Brilliant sky photos and Mr Buzzard is surveying his paradise!
    Clouds change every day... even every minute! Clouds are cool! :-)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Epic skies look like the prairies, we have lots of buzzards here too in fact I think they are some of our most common birds. I bore everyone in the car by shouting 'buzzard' excitedly whenever I see one but then for someone who grew up surrounded by pigeons in a city they are stunning, Antonia x

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

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!