It’s been a fairly awful week. It should have been a restful week’s holiday around the house forgetting about work, but instead it was a stressful period that’s still not over. So Kim’s weekly challenge this week is particularly apt: Fighting the Blahs. On Wednesday, determined to salvage at least a couple of days peace, Niall and I headed up to Ross Priory for lunch. It was an overcast day, with the clouds down over the hills as we looked over Loch Lomond:
But this is always one of our favourite places, with such a beautiful house:
A gate with no fence or wall around it:
A walled garden with a sundial:
Without any sun this is not much use:
And lots of flowers with hoverflies and bees:
So I could practice using my camera in macro mode:
And a final puzzle – what use is this here?
As we wandered around we spotted some brambles – so we popped back yesterday to pick some. Next: bramble and apple jam making 🙂
Overcast certainly isn’t doomed to be blah. Thanks for the reminder.
Beautiful photos.
“Bramble” is raspberry/blackberry/other?
Thank you 🙂 Brambles is the Scottish word for blackberries (both the fruit and the plant) – in England the berries are called blackberries and the plants are called brambles
Oh I love it there! The moon gate is brilliant. I think I have a photo somewhere when we were up for a writing retreat I took during sunset … (sorry brain fried cannot do that sentence thing anymore)
Ooh, I’d love to see that photo if you can find it 🙂
I like the table in front of the house. Looks like a turtle described mathematically. The last picture affirms the truth that the Scots have known about global warming for a long time but were over-optimistic in marking off sites for future yachting clubhouses. The fence is there to prevent randy seals from cohabiting with cattle. Which, I think is the source of the Walrus. The gate is inexplicable.
Hahaha