My tattooist is sick. The new tattoo has been rescheduled for next Tuesday evening.

Before the fog lifted this morning I got some pictures of trees. I think these would work better if there was a frost or a dusting of snow so that the ground was paler too. Still…I don’t hate them so I should be happy .

Cycled out past Kilmalcolm for a change – I never head in that direction. Cold and foggy when I started, warm and sunny when I finished. Very autumnal!
There’s lots of sculpture along the cycle track down there. I liked the little army the best.
Plenty buzzards out and about looking, I presume, for [...]

Lots of grey herons in the park this morning.

Back to the park again this morning to see what I can do with trees.
(Answer: not much [*sigh*]).

Yesterday started off cold and rainy and windy, but I went for a walk up Dumgoyne anyway. And as the day went on it just got warmer and sunnier. Hooray!
I took lots and lots of pictures of trees. And they’re all horrible. Not a single decent one amongst them. So [...]

I’d like to shoot better and more interesting pictures of trees. I have a habit of always ending up with one of a fairly small number of compositions. I’m afraid that that means I’m likely to be putting more trees in here whilst I figure out for myself just what I mean by [...]

I’ve been away from home quite a few weekends lately, and I’ve missed even more Monday yoga classes. Same again this weekend. Tomorrow I’m heading down to my parents’ place in England for a family funeral on Monday. This morning I felt the urge to go looking for colours (for personal reasons [...]

I seem to be back in favour with the rain gods. I think they must now be my very good friends as they followed me all around Mull. In fact Thor in particular would go to the divine pub each evening and then follow us around with a full (or temporarily full) bladder.
OK, [...]