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For years I have walked round Birnie and Gaddon. It's a popular nature reserve so I often go early morning or late evening. Today I went early looking for orange tips. The lady's smock is out and it's their favourite. Walking up the path to where it

This morning I was thinking about my new contacts on ipernity. The randomness of it. A decision to move here. Coming on a particular day. Uploading those photos. And people choosing to look. Then contact, a connection. I thought of spider silk floating

Yesterday I walked up to the limekiln and back across the moor. For a while I thought I would never do this walk again. Knees ! Well, one knee. The osteoarthritis was sudden and painful. I could just about get round the supermarket if I had a trolley to

Plants on the top of a wall. A photo by one of my contacts Greg Douglas. Mostly I think of plants as rooted in the soil and forget they don't stay still. But the London's Pride I planted years ago moved through the fence to Jen and looks much better

When Ginger Fred gave birth to six kittens she changed her name to Freda. I took one of the kittens home. A tiny ginger ball of fluff with a very long tail. When Arianne saw it she was affronted. A common cat of farming stock in the same house as a

I'm off on the Calmac ferry to Stornoway then west over the moor and through the hills to Uig sands. Where the Lewis chessmen were found. Somebody's lost treasure. I could get a boat to St Kilda from here, but after that it's America, and for me, even St