Bark

 

Greens, Hannahston

 

Beach walk, Irvine

 

Irish style or frog mouth shovel

 But mine has Canada stamped on it??!

Quiet day

 Both pottering a bit after a long day yesterday, but still getting things done, if slowly!

The weekend's washing dried beautifully on the line in the garden, the sun warm and the breeze doing its work. 

Plants were potted on and space readied for their next move. 

Mid afternoon we braved the traffic to Ayr in order to buy an Irish style or frog mouthed shovel for Pirate's son's birthday present...he wants to do more in his garden, but has back problems.

This should solve that, as the long handle avoids bending down!

A quick baking session to make supper, nothing fancy... rhubarb and apple crumble, a Brazil nut, chick pea and vege savoury (a small one to share tonight, the other to be portioned and frozen ) and some smaller potatoes baked.

While I did that, Pirate took on the job of watering and feeding the garden..a bigger job than he had guessed! 

Then football....for him.  Even Scotland Vs England leaves me disinterested!!

I spotted the sunset instead....

Not so sunny at the back....

That inertia that is everywhere seems to be hanging over us...is it holding us still, waiting for Monday morning's Solstice?

Those with a interest in these things note that Mercury is retrograde until the 22nd...

Light

 A trip to Dundee yesterday to ride the track for an hour. I was pleased to do about 50 laps steady, with a break after 30 .It's a 400 metre hard track, shallow banked. It was a lovely day and most of it was spent with various friends including one who is on palliative care with liver cancer.

Great to sit chatting in the sun with him, planning what he needs doing in his garden. The front is Alpines, so little maintenance, but the back needs strimming down and the redcurrants need some tlc and possibly picking soon. There is a fence post that needs a metpost base sinking in to replace the but that has rotted in the earth too.

Then supper with a friend down the road from him, sitting in the sun in the garden,relaxing and talking.  Seventy miles to drive home from there, but easy driving done after the rush hour.

Glasgow still gets very busy, but roadworks through the middle make it worth avoiding certain times!!

9.45 pm and we stopped for an Ice cream break.....

And at 10.50 after finishing unpacking...

It still wasn't dark!

I woke at 3.30 am this morning and from our room the clouds above the hills were pink....and the sky from my study a beautiful apricot colour.

I know further North they have the Simmer Dim, when it hardly gets dark atall...but we are appreciating the light...Solstice is early Monday morning.

A rosy day

 Pruning and weeding roses in the sunshine, while it rained at home....then a picnic supper on the way home.

Can't fault that!!