Bzzz

I'm sure I've posted this before, but it bears another look. Submitted for the Thursday Challenge, Wildlife.

Trees, Sheep and Water

Submitted for the Photo Friday 'The Country' challenge. Not taken this week, actually taken last summer. Three of the things which sum up the country round about me: trees, sheep and the river Tweed.

Branch Shadows

Submitted for the Photo Friday challenge 'The Blues'. Not the one I intended to submit, but I ran out of time for that one - so I'm feeling a bit blue about that.

Auld Not-So-Reekie

Taken for the Photo Friday challenge 'Blessing'. So what have chimneys got to do with it? Well, while trying to figure out what to take for this one, I was reminded of the Scottish blessing/toast 'Lang may your lum reek' - literally, 'long may your chimney smoke'. one of the nicknames for Edinburgh is Auld Reekie, both because it used to be very smokey from all the chimneys, and very smelly (reek can also mean strong or unpleasant smell). It's no longer quite as smokey or smelly as it used to be; another blessing.

Old Growth

Taken for this week's Photo Friday challenge, 'Growth'. I was going to take a picture of some of the new spring growth appearing, but out for a walk in the woods I see that a number of trees have been cut down. So I thought that the growth rings visible in the trunk might be a suitable subject for this one.

Spring Daffodil

Among the normal single-flowered daffodils appearing in the woods I spotted a couple of these double-flowered ones. That's one of the things about spring round here - one day you look around, and everywhere you see yellow: daffodils, broom, dandelions...