...the last days of summer in the garden - although I could count on 2 hands the number of days I've sat out this summer!
...and coffee from my new Anthropologie mug (imagining I am sunning myself at a Finca in Portugal) - Anthropologie now in George Street, Edinburgh!
As a special thank you and to celebrate Earth Day on 22 April, followed by Easter... I am offering a 20% discount to any purchases made in my OneGoodMarket shop until midnight (GMT) on Monday 25 April.
Just enter the code EARTH11 at the checkout.
10% of sales will still go to Scottish Wildlife Trust, and postage + packing is still free in the UK.
Can you see the tiny sliver of moon in the top left corner? This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago when the sun was setting on the horizon and sending an amazing beam of light up into the sky.
...just because they are so cheery. They are actually more purply than this, but loved the way the light comes through the petals.
Have a good week :)
Images from the weekend's snow on Saturday. Deep appreciation for peace and the environment - especially in sight of what has happened in Japan. Looking out from Duncryne over the Highland boundary fault (3rd picture) that runs through Loch Lomond, forms Incailloch island and Conic Hill - and separates the Lowland plate from the Highland, and over our little village in the last picture.
I can't imagine the devastation and sadness Japan must be feeling, but all our thoughts are there.
don't grow on trees... Or do they?
and this is where they must hang them out to dry...on a barb wire fence.
The only time I stepped outside today was for a short walk up the lane in the snow.. I love how everything becomes so black and white - rather like a pencil drawing. You might just make out the geese circling in the pictures below. Like little lead marks on a white page.
I think they were looking for somewhere to land where they could graze - but of course everything is covered in snow. They were flying around quite a bit, their calls against the muffled white of sky and snow was quite haunting - but beautiful.
These hedges looked as if they had been sculpted from polystyrene with windswept formations.
Hope you are keeping warm!
autumn leaves on the road outside the British Museum - they had been squashed flat by traffic..
amazing roof structure, inner courtyard of the British Museum..
one of my favourite collections there, the gold and silver hoards of ancient Britain - gold torcs..
...inspiring!
This past weekend we spent 3 days in London, courtesy of a really good Greenbee (Expedia) deal - and stayed right beside St Paul's Cathedral here. The view above is from the dome of St Paul's looking over a new shopping centre towards the Gherkin etc.
We did A LOT of walking - 8 hours on the first day! and were so lucky with the location of our hotel that we could just walk down this pedestrian way and across the bridge to Tate Modern...
...or drop down to the Embankment.
This was the view from our hotel room - just catching the Dome of St Pauls and through to the plaza. One morning I watched a squirrel hop across to that little tree. The "bells" did keep going through the night, but it was quite comforting and a privilege to be so close to the cathedral. A couple of times I tried to count the chimes, but kept drifting back to sleep before they were done.
we got a little surprise here, last weekend, to see these figures amongst the trees..
thanks for your thoughts etc re Murphy..
have a good weekend x
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