Spring is in the air

The country side is filled with lots of twin lambs bounding about next to their grazing mothers.  Newborn calves of all colours lie cuddled up, hiding from the chilly breeze.

We were gifted with a perfect little filly, last Sunday.

First Flower of SPRING ! :) :)

Yay, our first flower of Spring has opened in our garden.

Bright shining sun, blue skies today and not so freezing outside ;)

Let me be your island...

Its really cold and the water is freezing even in summer but midsummer it looks like a Tropical Island (minus the palm trees)

There is this lovely song we found on the internet for free download called 'Let me be your island'

You can listen to it on this page as I can't remember where I found it myself LOL http://www.emusic.com/album/MP3/10862510.html?AID=10364977&PID=2250563

An Island beach bonfire. In mid summer many go the the beach and light bonfires with driftwood and old wooden pallets. It takes some patience waiting for sunset with comes anytime around midnight and sometimes even then its not really totally dark. Some get impatient and light them at about 11pm when its still light like this one before midnight...

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. -Donne,John

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Too windy to hang out the washing

but good enough to peer out through the window towards the hills outside for birds skimming the thermals.

A thick woollen blanket has surrounded our little village, nestled up against the hills and wedged in beside the sea.

Its so thick, one could be anywhere. Perhaps that's something to distract one? When stuck in a thick mist what entertainment could you have by convincing yourself that you are in fact somewhere else? Where would that be? It could be anywhere and your eyes cant deceive you because all you can see is this thick white blanket - in penetrable.

Usually mist clears up at some point but not today, it seems set to stay and its getting on in the afternoon.

Refuse to think of SK - The Mist! Argh......

Actually its really misty out there, cant see anything but can hear someone calling out in a muffled sort of way.

Guess it means there is no wind, at all. Windy Isles, Misty Isles.

Windy Isles Stormy Isles

“You throw the sand against the wind

And the wind blows it back again"

William Blake

Found at the beach

Mother bird - Oystercatcher

Baby bird, just hatched on the shore

Anemone

A giant crab

To feel the breath of a mist

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be."
Rachel Carson

Mist

“Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail."
Robert Motherwell

Misty, Misty Morning

Its so misty outside that I cant even see the hills. It's been like that the whole day.

Some horrendous weather over the past days with a mini tornado hitting one of the top islands in the chain and a freak wind blowing away 7 marquee tents at a show on another island. Hail balls, lightening, thunder and torrential rain spent the night. A wild gale blew up yesterday and attacked the tented camps of festival goers who were attending the music festival on our island. Sideways rain, gusty high winds, grey skies. So much for mid - summer.

Carrot cake

Baking in the oven. Freshly iced.

Freshly Homebake Carrot Cake - Perfect for a sunny, windy Saturday

A delicious mixture of pecans, carrots, wholemeal flour, eggs, cinnamon, ginger, sunflower oil, brown sugar topped with creamy butter, icing sugar and vanilla

- smells heavenly...............

Look at your feet.

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.- Diane Ackerman

Magnificent Sky

We had a sunset of a very fine sort.

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat. - Mark Twain

Love is to the heart what the summer is

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. ~Author Unknown

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. Helen Keller

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. ~John Lubbock