Crafty Green Poet

male tufted ducks   for Weekend Reflections

It's a beautiful day today, very warm for the time of year which is pleasant though worrying from a climate change perspective. (It'...

It was a beautiful day at Musselburgh today, wonderful light for birdwatching. There were lots of birds around too! I was delighted to see 1...

One of the things that Dalkeith Country Park is renowned for (as well as the bluebells, which you can see in Sunday's post ) is its anci...

Here are two photos of different reflections from last weekend's visit to Linlithgow Loch . Thanks Crafty Green Boyfriend for thi...

Mirror for sale at Meadows Festival, Edinburgh There's also a nice reflection in the top photo in this post  for Weekend Reflecti...

If you've been reading this blog over the past week, you'll know that Crafty Green Boyfriend and I recently discovered Redford Woods...

A few photos of some of the lochans (small lochs) we visited during our recent holiday in and around Dumfries. Loch Mackie, Auchencair...

Yesterday Edinburgh had the most amazing thunderstorm that lasted a total of two hours, the storm spent that time circling the city and thro...

How can anyone call them ugly! We saw this swan family on the Union Canal today. The cygnets were very curious and came right up to us. We a...

On Wednesday, I picked up a sample copy of the CD of poetry from my chapbook Unthinkable Skies with music from Belvedere Mountain Express ....

We went for a lovely walk today, up Easter Craiglockart Hill then down to Craiglockart Pond and then home along the Union Canal. There were ...

We visited Figgate Park last weekend and I posted some of Crafty Green Boyfriend's photos here . In that post I promised to show you som...

Here are some of the ducks at Gorgie City Farm , photographed last weekend. For Weekend Reflections

a flash of kingfisher across the river disappears in the bushes for A River of Stones and Weekend Reflections I took the photo just above on...

As I mentioned in this post , we visited Blackleach Country Park , Walkden, Manchester at the weekend. The light was wonderful and here are ...

We had a lovely walk today from Cramond Brig in Edinburgh to South Queensferry, along the River Almond and down to the Firth of Forth. The f...

I took the photo above at Edinburgh's Blackford Pond the weekend before last. You can read more about that trip here . One of my photo...