Late Summer, River Almond

Yesterday was a lovely late summer day and we walked along the River Almond from Cramond Brig up to Edinburgh airport. It's a lovely walk, though you do need to be prepared for sudden loud noises from relatively low flying aircraft. The river is very picturesque

and much of the walk is along a wooded walkway that runs alongside agricultural land

Many flowering plants are seeing now, like this rosebay willowherb

We had a picnic lunch near our traditional picnic tree

and as we often do, we saw a kingfisher not far from here.

On the way back we decided to take the lower path, which has lovely river views

 
but is very overgrown and in parts almost blocked by fallen trees! This made the walk more of an adventure than normal!