Despite the distraction of bluebells I still have all my old obsessions with trees and feathers. Someday soon I’m going to have to rent a car and go get my fix of standing stones and photograph a few that I’ve not yet seen.

Sigh. This morning I looked back at my bluebell photos and was really disappointed. Ew! Am I Snapshot Boy or what? Surely I can do a little better than just pointing my camera at some flowers and pressing the shutter! They’re pictures of pretty things, but the pictures themselves are [...]

I meant to post this one also.

Wiston Lodge used to be a hunting lodge. Hence the rather splendid building and extensive gardens. It’s now a YMCA hostel. And, yes, it is fun to stay there!

Crow at dawn

Sunrise over the daffodils

A pretty Spring flower and…yeah…Angel of DeathTM in the distance

I’ve been away for a couple of days at a planning workshop weekend for the Bodhi eco-village. It was down at Wiston Lodge, where I went for a wonderful yoga retreat last December. Strictly speaking I was there as a computer consultant, so there were a bunch of things that I had to [...]

Some more pictures from the park this morning. Bluebells not included.

Same place, same themes, different time.
The sun was out (again) this morning so I went for a cycle around the park. The bluebells are now just coming out. I love bluebells! It’s beautiful just now. In a couple of weeks when more flowers have opened it’ll be just spectacular, I’m sure.
I’ll [...]

Sunday was into the deep glen with the steep hills. And the cold weather. It rained a lot. But like I may have mentioned, I love the rain. It’s wonderful to be out in the wilds, no one to see anywhere, nothing to hear but the birds and the rain and [...]

Some more pictures from Saturday.
I’ve only seen golden eagles once before, and that was last year at the end of hiking the West Highland Way as the path descended into Glen Nevis. Six eagles came down the slope of Ben Nevis and circled around for a long time, looking very elegant and big! [...]