On top of the world again

We have had the most glorious weather over the last few days, a real Indian summer. I have seen more butterflies in the garden this week, than I have seen all summer. Red admirals, peacock, tortoiseshell and spotted wood butterflies. They have been particularly enjoying the sedum flowers.

I was up early yesterday morning to join the mountain hare survey walk again. By 8.45 am we had these blissful views across the Lammermuirs and East Lothian.

Worryingly, we only saw one mountain hare. He was a big, handsome chap. We hoped that his pals were hunkered down, out of sight, enjoying the warmth of the early morning sun. This chappie was disturbed by us, walking across the heather, and he took off with speed. He paused on the skyline to watch us for a few minutes, before bounding off, out of sight. We didn't spot him again.

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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!

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...

Early morning light

There have been some cracking early morning skies this week. The sunrise has generated a strong rose gold light which has been picked up not only in the clouds but also through the silver-white grasses around the edge of the golf course. I always marvel at the clouds. Constantly changing, formations that have never been seen before, never to be seen again.

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