Definitely Autumn...they are actually more yellow than they look here.
A month since I returned from France...I have been so busy...and remiss...I have a few letters waiting to be written!! And emails...but proper physical letters mean so much more.
Today's job first is get the clean washing on the line...then collect my pots from the September exhibition in the Barony Gallery in West Kilbride.
Ok....look at these in reverse please!! This has what has been happening most of today..I did take a break this afternoon and restrimmed the rough grass. Then used the push mower and edger...we are over 5⁰ so the grass is still growing!!!!!
Simple but special.
I took the cockerel picture from France to be framed in Ayr, and he did it while I had a wander around town. I'll photograph it tomorrow..he did a good job.
Ayr is in a sorry state...but so are many towns. Some bits are being restored though
And beside it...
The 1970s police hq being demolished.
For a few years the police have been in an old Victorian school building....a lovely brick built one, in good condition...says it all.....
Hopefully the council will build homes on the site...as although the building was transferred to Strathclyde police with the rejig of the counties in the 70s....the council quietly retained the land.....
New card printing...
Not just the C word.... there are nearly thirty other celebrations of light in different forms in the month that spans the solstice.
So I start on the equinox with a block that I've used already for my personal greetings cards a few years ago.
Now for the difficult job....creating others to go with it!!
Back to being alone again...feels odd.
There is always plenty (too much!) to do.
I'll start on glaze rehydration today..that can sit and look after itself for a while....and also apple juicing.
I collected what I could carry from a tree in the nature reserve...the ground was covered underneath the tree! I hadn't seen much blossom in the spring, or growing fruit later on, but as it is now surrounded by other trees all the apples had grown at the top!!
It was good to have a conversation with three teen lads who were having a stroll around the reserve path. Showing them what was ripe, explaining why there weren't so many large apples and saying what I would make from them...juice, jelly, spread..maybe a pie...and they all tried eating a ripe apple. Even the one who wasn't keen on apples!
The grass needs to dry out then I can cut it again, hopefully with the push mower in most places.
A bits and bobs day again.
I started dismantling a handlebar, brakes, shifters and gears set...that had been left absolutely filthy!! That was a serious cleaning job!
It has been nice having bro here for a few days....he is off for some camping on his motorbike, so I'm getting on with things...
To Dumfries today to celebrate the life of Pirate's oppo and friend.
A day of strong and blustery winds and showers, heavy at times.
A day of celebrating, remembering and catching up with old friends.
A sad and happy day all in one.
A really blustery day as well.
And a smile...what do you think?!
This morning was just relaxing and waiting for a delivery...then out to town with bro.
Paying most of my takings in....that is over a third of the car mending paid back in....and some kept as float for gallery days and the next cycle jumble/ craft fair when I have enough stock, or whatever!
A framed A4 print sent off... that's a handy £28! From just posting a Facebook memory of my prints ...
Lunch in the bookshop then a walk up the street in Ayr where they have cleaned the block paving ..it has really made a difference....the rest of the town needs cleaning...and keeping clean!!
Then off to Culzean to stock check cards , look in the secondhand bookshop and go for a decent walk to the walled garden..fruit and veges...and to the Swan pond and back.
Lovely to have the sea breezes but also shelter from the trees as we walked around.
You can really see the erosive effect of the wind.
Up at 5 for Breakfast....and out not long after 6!!...to drive just over 60 miles to Cambusbarron on the outskirts of Stirling.
That was where the headquarters of the memorial time trial for the founder of my latest and previous bike clubs/teams...postponed from its usual late June date due to Kinross council roadworks....
An easy run through on a misty morning.
The HQ at the village bowling green was about three miles from the course...so on a cold morning I just had a wander round one bit of the village.
After the race and prize giving and reading out of times it was 11 am....and my brother was on his way a few days early due to the Weather!!
It is good to see him again.
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