A few weeks ago we were in the East Lothian village of Tyninghame and decided to go for a walk around the countryside there, well it was a necessity really. We came across a field full of rams, they aren’t something that you see often, especially these very prehistoric looking curly horned ones. The chappie above posed perfectly between these two trees to have his photo taken.

Above is Uther, he’s named after King Arthur’s father of course and he was the very reason we were going on the walk, he is a red and white Irish setter and was going stir crazy indoors on such a lovely day. He’s just full of energy and this was him after the long walk, when he was a bit more biddable, but as you can see he still had to be tethered to a tree, otherwise he would have been over the hills and far away in a trice. He is a gorgeous dog though.

The above rose is one which was planted just last month in my new garden. It’s a lovely plant but sadly it doesn’t seem to have much in the way of fragrance, but it only cost me £1 from the pound shop so I shouldn’t really complain. I have no idea what its name is either as it was called ‘white rose’ on the package it came in. It’s doing very well though and the leaves are really healthy which is more than can be said for the named pink one which I bought at much greater expense, its leaves are covered in the dreaded blackspot.

Some people don’t realise how long our summer days are in these northern climes of Scotland. You can easily read a book outside after 10.30 in Scotland in the summer. This is a photo which I took from my garden just after midnight on the 22nd of June, so just after the summer solstice. The camera was facing north. As you can see there is still light in the sky but it’s not moonlight. You don’t have to wait long before we are back to full daylight again.