Picking up the #JohnMuirWay at Cramond Brig. Urban walking through Edinburgh for the next few miles. #FingerpostFriday

Sun trying to break through. Bridlington last week. #TidesOutTuesday

Cosmos and geranium. Holly flowers and berries. Pyracantha berries as yet uneaten by the birds. Rosemary in flower. Still no frost here. #SixOnSaturday 🌱

Kippford at High Tide. #FingerpostFriday

Sunshine and autumn colours in the woods. Danes’ Dyke on Sunday. #ThickTrunkTuesday

Morning sunshine on the magnificent Forth Bridge. From South Queensferry last week. #TidesOutTuesday

Homemade mincemeat using up the last of the garden 🍎 To store for Christmas cooking, and a jar for my daughter!

Into November, my least favourite month. Garden temperature down to 2 degrees one morning but no frost yet. Umbrella plant now inside; roses and fuchsia clinging on; winter flowers appearing in jasmine, cyclamen and viburnum. #SixOnSaturday 🌱

Walking around Tomintoul last weekend 🥾 #FingerpostFriday

A favourite walk from Kippford to Rockcliffe. Looking towards Heston Island on a glorious morning last week. 🥾 #TidesOutTuesday

Continuously in flower since mid May, the last (probably) bloom on Rose Handel for this year. 🌱🌹#RoseWednesday

Solway sunset. #TidesOutTuesday

Shades of pink and red as summer colour gives way to autumn. Last of the roses; tiny sedum; cosmos; pyracantha berries and acer 🍂 🌱🌸🌹 #SixOnSaturday

Well it's not every day that you get to stand on the site of a brand new Observatory! This is Clatteringshaws loch, in the Galloway Forest #DarkSky Park, home of the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish Dark Sky Observatory. Construction starts soon and like a phoenix SDSO will rise from the ashes! Re-opening mid-2027. 🥳🔭🧪

Completing the last stretch of the #WoldRangersWay last weekend. #FingerpostFriday

Autumn Colours and Grey Skies. 13°C. Apples.

Line of trees by a green lane in the Yorkshire Wolds. Just turning to autumn colours 🍂 #ThickTrunkTuesday

Lovely day yesterday completing the last 10 miles of the local #WoldRangersWay #EastYorkshire 🥾🌳☀️

Sun shining on Flamborough Head yesterday. #TidesOutTuesday

Using up some of the garden 🍎🌱🍏🥧

Walking near Girthon last month. #FingerpostFriday

Summer clinging on. #RoseWednesday

Portobello Beach in early September. Looking across to Fife and the towers of Kirkcaldy on the right, my home for a number of years. #TidesOutTuesday

First Saturday at home for a couple of weeks. Profusion of pink clinging on to summer colour. Last of the many apples. Roses, hesperantha, cosmos, hibiscus. 🌱🌹🍎🌸 #SixOnSaturday

Approaching South Queensferry on the #JohnMuirWay #FingerpostFriday

A few days before the Equinox. Glorious Galloway sunset from last week. #SandgreenBeach #TidesOutTuesday

Galloway sloes looking fabulous this year.

Reaching Bo’ness Harbour on the John Muir Way. View over The Forth to the Ochil Hills. #FingerpostFriday #JohnMuirWay

The magnificent Forth Bridges. Approaching from the west when walking from Linlithgow to South Queensferry last week. With rainbow. #JohnMuirWay

Incoming rain on the #JohnMuirWay last week. Blackness Castle beyond the beach. #TidesOutTuesday

On a short stretch of the Minster Way last weekend. Rowan berries. #EastYorkshire #FingerpostFriday

Fife coast railway poster, c.1950

Bridlington last week #TidesOutTuesday

September means a bumper crop of apples, and finding lots of lovely recipes, old and new! 🌱🍎🍏# #GardensHour

A week of late summer sunshine and welcome heavy rain. Fuchsia, honeysuckle, apples, cosmos, roses and sedum🌱🌹🍎 #SixOnSaturday

Walking along Buttermere earlier this summer. #FingerpostFriday

Welcome rain yesterday on the (probably) last clematis flowers for this year. #ClematisThursday

Lovely September day in Bridlington. #TidesOutTuesday

First crumble of the season. Homegrown apples and wild Scottish brambles.

Lerwick this summer #FingerpostFriday

Late summer burst of flowers from “Olivia” 🌱🌹 #RoseWednesday

Last week. Sunset over Fleet Bay. #TidesOutTuesday

Late summer colour. Tubs looking good with fuchsia, geraniums and osteospermum; cosmos and roses; re flowering of an early clematis. Ripening apples in abundance this year 🍎🍏🌱🌹🌸 #SixOnSaturday

Keeping us on the right track between Kettlewell and Ribblehead. Variety of signage on the #DalesWay 🥾 #FingerpostFriday

Just home after a while away. All summer varieties over, but this little early spring clematis in flower again. 🌱 #ClematisThursday

Last week. Little kayak trip to a deserted beach. Galloway at its best. #TidesoutTuesday

Sharing the Pennine Way for a short stretch. Walking the #DalesWay a couple of weeks ago. #FingerpostFriday

Kayak days. Only the oystercatchers for company.

A couple of weeks ago near Thixendale 🥾 #EastYorkshire #ThickTrunkTuesday

Lerwick a month ago. #TidesOutTuesday