Afternoon walk and collecting pottery

 I will keep this evenings entry relatively short, although I do have photos.  I did household chores and a bit of jigsaw this morning, after lunch I went for a walk, Darren joined me into Dunkeld which was nice, we had a drink nd I bought some dishwasher tablets which he took home with him. I went on to the river path past the cathedral. It was a very hot and humid day today, I sat on this bench before I continued.

I took these photos from inside the stone cave, I may try a sketch from one of them.

Three more photos from my walk.

I collected the pottery that Isobel, Anya and myself painted while they were up here. Carried them home carefully. I had been carrying my sketching stuff but there were no benches in the shade with views I fancied sketching. I was really hot and bothered by the time I got home, it was the longest walk I have done in a while.

Will finish with the pottery, I am out to watch The Piano.

Pitlochry craft market and lunch by the water

 We all left home around ten to go to Pitlochry, I tried taking photos from the moving car with the new phone. The first one is especially for Mike, it will make him tut!

Couldn’t have ruined it better if I’d tried.

Quite sharp pics considering they are from the car.

It was a great market, lots of interesting stalls.

This shelter was just outside, there were seats inside.

There was a lady who made amazing decorations, most trees, using cycle wheel rims. Not great pics, the second one was work in progress.

We had a wander in the town and had a a drink, this was an unusual post box topper.

And I was fascinated by the patter of tiles on this roof.

Tina had read about a loch side cafe so we went there. Stunning views and a very nice lunch.

Tina and I fed the ducks of course.

We went on a short walk, hilly as you might expect.

We went down a steep slope to that bridge which was under a main road.

We walked down a bit more.

A couple of shots of the walk back up.

Darren reluctantly stood by the fallen tree.

From there we went to see Tina’s aunt before heading home. I watered the garden before setting out for another walk, the same route as yesterday but I went a bit further. Just took a couple of photos at the underpass going below the A9.

Relaxing with my feet up now, it has been a good day.

Garden, jigsaw and walk

 Firstly I will add to photos sent to me by Tina from yesterday evening.

This morning I worked a bit on the jigsaw, slow progress as you can see.

I have finished the head now as I did some more this afternoon.

I did some weed pulling in the garden around the tubs and the parking area, no photos as it was pretty boring stuff but it looks tidier. I did go into the garden to do s sketch this afternoon, I sat in the Shade!

While I had been in the garden I planted up three saplings that were not too leggy.

Tina and I sat in the garden and had a drink and I assembled my new hanging bracket watering device! Tina did take a video of me with it but sadly I done know how to add a video here so will take a photo tomorrow!

I watered the plants that wer in the shade before going for an evening walk. I don’t often walk along the path towards Dunkeld in the evening so the light was different.

I walked under the bridge and along to the bench opposite the cathedral.

The zoom is more on this phone so I managed to get a seagull on those pebbles, albeit not that sharp!

On the way back, near the bridge I went down onto the river edge as I wanted to get a picture of the bridge but there were too many trees blocking the view.

The phone has a photo setting called ‘fun’ so took this picture of the ancient sycamore. Took one on normal setting after and not really a lot of difference.

Then lastly tried taking a flower with the portrait setting!

That’s it for today.