It's that time of year again

The highlight of my year has come round again! Working in the bookshop at the Borders Book Festival. I've been here since Thursday morning, when we had a deluge of schoolchildren and rain, but no dampened spirits! EVERYONE loves the BBF, staff and guest speakers alike. And we have some stomping good speakers this year!

There are no two ways about it. This is just the best book festival in the UK. Apart from anything else, where else do you get a book festival in a vegetable garden? The grounds of Harmony House in Melrose are dreamy. Delicious scents from the flowerbeds and shrubberies and beautiful views to the hills around the town. I just love being here!

Judy Murray came to the bookshop, during a quiet moment, to sign a huge pile of books before she gave her talk in the evening.

And Melvyn Bragg needed a little help with removing the microphone wiring after his talk.

This morning we have wonderful blue skies overhead and there will be hundreds of families coming to the book festival throughout the day. I will be on my feet from nine in the morning until eleven o'clock tonight, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere else!!

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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.

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!

(Not) in a vase on Monday!

The challenge this week, set by Cathy at https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com to celebrate five years of In a Vase on Monday, was to offer (Not) in a vase on Monday! So here is my interpretation of that idea with one of my Plant Belles, which I tend to use for things I find and enjoy. I weave bits and pieces through the metal ribs and keep them until they fall apart, or something even better turns up! Lichen covered twigs, branches of larch with tiny cones, seed heads, twisted heather stems, anything and everything that has form and beauty.

the running wave

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