Saturday, 21 April 2018

Day two on our paradise island, and an early morning walk with the dogs, through the outer gardens of Colonsay House. Magical, as always.

In early morning sunshine, nothing to be heard but birdsong.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

Dropping from the veils of the morning ...

In the afternoon my cousin and I walked, at low tide, across the strand to Oransay. The tide was still running out and previous efforts in the past showed that wellies were the best thing to wear. Wellies or off with the walking boots and socks to wade through the water! I left my wellingtons and backpack by an upturned rowing boat and we continued on our way.

Looking back across the strand to Colonsay.

We walked over to the south side of the island and looked back across to the islands of Jura and Islay.

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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!

the running wave

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