Skip to main content

Sunday walk

Tilly and I did our favourite walk this morning.  It comprises a farm track, a short stretch of marshland, a rocky shoreline, a headland, a bit of beach and some woodland. I think the only thing missing is a mountain!

The marshland took me surprise today.  There has obviously been a very high tide, which has washed up and over the top of the beach.  The surprise came with the debris left by the tide. Hundreds and hundreds of crabs, most of them tiny, and sadly, very dead and gone.  A bit odd.
We sat on the headland for a little while, enjoying the view of both land and sea.  A cormorant spent some time drying off its wings, before choosing exactly which wave it was going to dive into, as it took to the water again!  
 The ling heather is out now.  The colours of the landscape today were very soft and lovely.
And we saw an elegant, impeccably dressed heron, doing a spot of fishing, on the incoming tide.

Comments

  1. No doubt about it Mrs R W .... You lead an idyllic life! Beautiful places that just make the heart sing!
    Sad about the crab biblical moment!
    Must have been the way the tide did something.... (Technical terminology at it's best!!!!!!!!!)
    Keep loving it all... Keep posting! Xxxx

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

In a vase on Monday - colour

The intense colours in my vase this week come from nasturtiums, sweetpeas and a single glorious zinnia! Their beauty and love of life speak for themselves and need no further words from me! Enjoy!

Colonsay postcards - on arrival

The first thing I do, once we have unpacked our car, which has been groaning with all the stuff we need for a week's stay in the holiday cottage, is head for the outer gardens of Colonsay House. It is a place of wonder for me! I particularly love the leaves of the giant rhododendrons. There are many different varieties, all planted in the early 1930s. The outer gardens are generally overgrown, having had little tending over the decades. That makes them even more magical! The old woodmill falls apart a little more every year, but that's fine by me because I love corrugated iron and especially if it's rusted! And of course the bees. Colonsay's beekeeper, Andrew Abrahams, has one of his apiaries on the edge of the pine wood. So lovely - the hum of busy bees and the heady smell of the pines. We are here - finally! Delayed by four months by the wretched virus, but now I am on holiday! Hooray!

Found items IAVOM

I am on holiday on the Inner Hebridean island of Colonsay. It is my happy place. Thoughts of Colonsay rattle around in my head each and every day I am not here! I haven't got a vase to share this week but some lovely things I have found over the past few days, which are just as beautiful as a vase of flowers! I hope you agree! Here are some leaves of giant rhododendrons, growing in the outer gardens of Colonsay House. Some skeleton leaves of magnolia. The dried stem of a kelp seaweed. A couple of conkers (can never resist those!), and a branch heavily populated by a number of lichens. The air on Colonsay is so clean that lichens flourish here!