Hogmanay

Gathering for a torchlit procession, snow beginning to fall.

Hopping

The camera has overcompensated for the low light (it was actually much darker than it appears).

Facepainted & balloon-headed

Soft-focus effect due to the lens steaming up when I came back into the warm.

Tomatoes

Still blooming

There's less of it than there was but the dyer's chamomile is still providing a decent splash of colour in the garden.

East Ren

Or so my 'phone thinks anyway.

sprawl

This is an old picture I found this evening - it's been sitting on my camera (in the camera memory rather than the card memory) since May and I didn't realise. It's my very silly and actually quite large cat squeezing into the gap under the settee.

Frost

Popcorn

For the Boy and My Beloved to consume while watching The Muppets. The house still stinks of it.

Perching

I wonder if it's warm?

Must subdue swimming bag!

Something about the smell of chlorine or maybe bleach.

winding

Couldn't find my nostepinne so I used the end of a salad-serving implement instead.

wOOOOOOOOoooo

Mitts

Dignity, I haz it.

Not.

New smucks

And in a search for Shetland dialect stuff I came across two poems by an old teacher of mine. There's something deeply shocking about finding a former teacher using swearwords in poetry - I'm reeling :-D.

Gold leaf

Poppy red

A bit of editorialising by my 'phone

Goes quite well with the previous one don't you think? 'Once upon a Glasgow dreary...'

Nevermore

Adventurous snail

Blue

In the Mackintosh church for the Glasgow School of Yarn event.

cosy 2

cosy

Poppy

Ladybird ladybird

Perching

Homework

Miss Mouse took extra special care with her homework - it had to be Just Right.

A little train journey

Just before the rain started.

crumble

Apple and blackberry. Mmm..

kittehs

Part of the Boy's homework.

a fly that is green

words cannot begin to describe..

.. what a nightmare this was - putting together a trampoline in my mother-in-law's garden. The instructions were a nightmare.

calendula

For Granny

Me: Granny thought the school picture was nice.
Boy: What picture?
Me: The one of you too going back to school - I put it on Facebook and she saw it.
Boy: You didn't tell me the picture was for Granny!
Me: ??
Boy: I'd have smiled. And stayed in the picture! You can take another one.

So I did.

back to school

Boy escaped out of shot..

Cosmos

Thought this was nigella before it flowered then realised it was cosmos - must have been in that flower mix. Very pretty - think I'll grow lots next year!

Stalker Duck

Mountains

Posing

At Landmark Forest Adventure Park. Thankfully there is no photographic evidence of how I  looked after coming down the water slide - rabbit-in-the-headlights about covers it. Mama ain't no adrenaline-junkie..

Prepared

Only for the paddling pool of course.

'I got style'

Nattily attired.

It's worth looking up

Cat among the anthemis tinctoria

More Poppy

Largs

Ferry-watching.

Face-painted

Miss M had been face-painted at a birthday party. Cat2 was intrigued.

Poppy!

yeah, sorry

Another!

catch!