Not us this time, but our son and our daughter-in-law, heading for home after a week in Scotland. Hoping to see them again soon.
They were leaving early, so it was an early rise for us too. Then the house seemed so empty after the hustle and bustle, but good to hear a few hours later that they had arrived back home safe and sound with Vixen.
I was raining when they left us. I had been intending to meet my brother for a photowalk somewhere interesting, later in the day, but a WhatsApp message from him an hour after the climbers had left made me thing it wasn’t going to happen today. He said the rain was really heavy in his neck of the woods and to be honest, it had been raining constantly all morning with us. I decided the best thing to do was to cancel today’s walk and try for another day next week when, hopefully there would be at least one dry day. Not too much to ask, surely.
That left us with a whole day to fill, then Scamp reminded me that she was going out to lunch with Shona which left ME with a whole afternoon to fill. I had two posts to upload and two blog posts to write up, so it wasn’t really true to say that I had a ”whole afternoon to fill”. It was already filled.
A cup of coffee first and I got the photos uploaded. The blogs took longer, as blogs usually do. I was half way through the first one when I realised the rain had stopped and the sun was shining. I took that opportunity to grab some photos of flowers in the garden. One of them got PoD. That one was the low viewpoint shot of an orange Dahlia. Scamp’s first attempt at growing miniature Dahlias. Safe in the knowledge that I had at last one photo in the bag, I finished off both the blogs and posted them. The rain returned for another quick splash and then the sun shone again for most of the evening.
Dinner for me was beef olives with onions, potatoes and carrots. Since Scamp had already had lunch, she managed to scrounge a few of my potatoes.
A fairly busy day for both of us.
We’re hoping to go dancing tomorrow if the weather plays nice.