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A woodland scene, a close-up of the trunk of a tree and lichen in the centre of the picture. It's just ever-so-slightly out of focus.
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Auri, Photographer

by Lydia November 9, 2022

On Sunday, Auri wanted to borrow my phone to take photos on her walk with Euan and Scapa.

A woodland scene, a close-up of the trunk of a tree and lichen in the centre of the picture. It's just ever-so-slightly out of focus.
November 9, 2022
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An autumnal woodland scene, with trees of green, gold and brown bracketing a half-hidden path.
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The Misty Solitudes

by Lydia October 30, 2022

They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.

The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling
An autumnal woodland scene, with trees of green, gold and brown bracketing a half-hidden path.
October 30, 2022
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A garden, with fog drawing in from beyond the fence. It's clearly a wet morning, and the trees in the garden are either bare or have leaves turning yellow.
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A Misty, Moisty Day

by Lydia October 21, 2022

I am sure that I picked up the phrase “misty, moisty mornings” from Susan Hill’s “Through the Kitchen Window” many, many moons ago. She was describing those autumn days with mushroom blooming everywhere. It seems fitting for today.

A garden, with fog drawing in from beyond the fence. It's clearly a wet morning, and the trees in the garden are either bare or have leaves turning yellow.
October 21, 2022
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Hedgehog in the Fog

by Lydia October 18, 2022

The nights are drawing in, and the dark is lingering longer in the mornings. The trees are a riot of joyous colour, and there is definitely an increasing bite of autumn in the air. Contemplating the turning of the year, this old favourite sprung to mind the other day.

October 18, 2022
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A rose in full bloom in the foreground, with trees and a house behind.
A Murder of Crows

Hysterically Good

by Lydia September 25, 2022

The girls and I had an hysterically good weekend up at Stempster, while Euan was away representing the family at a wedding in Dumfries and Galloway. At one point I was actually crying with laughter during an afternoon of games, which included the world’s most hilarious game of Cluedo (there’s a reason that it’s not recommended for three-year olds). Auri, meanwhile, also had an amazing time making crafts, riding on a train, and generally running rings round everyone; while Scapa thoroughly enjoyed exploring some new (to her) aspects of the Stempster vicinity. All in all, the perfect way to see in the new season.

A rose in full bloom in the foreground, with trees and a house behind.
September 25, 2022
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Autumn

by Lydia September 23, 2022

Breaking camp in this way always comes with a hop, skip and a jump! All of a sudden everything is different, and if you’re going to move on you’re careful to make use of every single minute, you pull up your tent pegs and douse the fire quickly before anyone can stop you or start asking questions, you start running, pulling on your rucksack as you go, and finally you’re on your way and suddenly quite calm, like a solitary tree with every single leaf completely still. Your camping-site is an empty rectangle of bleached grass. Late in the morning your friends wake and say: he’s gone away, autumn’s coming.

Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson
September 23, 2022
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Elosa

Take one Southern and one Northern. Throw in a determined preschooler, a hot-off-the-press baby, and their four-legged guardian and partner in crime. Immerse in the Highlands.

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