The warmest day of the year so far!

There was quite a frost earlier this morning but when I got back in the car this afternoon, in North Berwick, it was registering 16 degrees C! I think, once moving, the temperature was more like 13. Either way, it was a really beautiful day - the best of the year so far! The dogs and I found a new walk today, with great views - north, south, east and west.

I was pleased to see that they are mending holes in the hedge with new planting. The hedging along the lane was all hawthorn and I expect that's what they have planted in the all the gaps, as you can in this photo.

Once the hawthorn has grown and matured it will be as big and spready as the single plant below. That will take some decades though! These hedges will have been around for generations, but as least there are some youngsters coming along behind now. Delighted to see the farmer cares enough to replenish the hedgerow. Not enough of them do.

It was warm enough today for the flowers on the gorse bushes to have that delicious spicy coconut smell! Happy 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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