23rd
April 2018 (Monday)
.... 08.30 “Happy St George’s Day” to
all my
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| Happy dog walker... and dog. |
English friends: today is the day
when you collect dandelion flowers to make wine. Maggie and I once did this, and the resulting
wine was excellent ... and had a kick.
It took a year to reach that stage.
Of course, you don’t need to make wine to enjoy the Dandelion
flowers; I always see them as happy
flowers. This means that Ivy Cottage garden
is a ‘happy garden’.
We
have a ‘bright and breezy’ morning;
might be a bit breezy for the bike actually. I have been down to the beach, which is a happy
beach; we had one dog walker with
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| East basin - Pittenweem Harbour. |
dog
(you couldn’t be dog walker without one.
A dog i.e.), one jogger, with dog, and me.... without a dog,
but I did have a camera. We were all ‘happy’.
19.30 With it being too windy for me being out
on the bike (I must get a battery assisted bike) I went up to Gillingshill
Nature Reserve, in the car, to have a walk round. There was a gale o’ wind so I didn’t go up
to the high path; it was getting the
full blast of wind. I know this
because I met a lassie walking her dogs, and she had been ‘up top’, and didn’t
recommend it. The buds on the trees
will be bursting open soon; the chestnut
trees on Gillingshill are already showing their fresh green. Chestnut trees are usually the
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| Pittenweem. |
first to
burst into leaf; they’re also the first
to show colour change in autumn. The
flowers, especially flowering currant bushes, are alive with bumble bees ...
and Queen wasps. I also noticed this
on Balcarres the other evening. It’s
as if nature is making up time, after the elongated winter we’ve had.
In
the afternoon I decided to go along to Pittenweem Harbour for a walk
around; taking in the Middle and East
piers. I always find Pittenweem Harbour
inspiring; because it is still a working
harbour. I enjoyed my walk out on the
piers, but it was cauld. All harbours are cold places being exposed to winds. The sun had gone behind clouds by this time,
so that didn’t help. Having said
that; I’m happy with the pictures I
got, and will go back;
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| West Shore - Pittenweem. |
with the Canon, and tripod the next time.
It
is going to be windy, and cooler, tomorrow.... much the same weather as we had
today in fact. I might go out on the bike
regardless of the wind; it depends on
how strong the wind is, and, more importantly, how strong I feel.
