.... for Flower Friday. Many thanks Anni for hosting.

Our valley lies between highish (8,000-ish feet) mountains to sea level, and we can usually see the coming weather as it rolls in from one or the other direction. These are the mists this morning. In ...

As we travelled down the Mekong today we went ashore at a small remote Lao village (another view in extra). Until recently the only transport in and out was by river, though there is now a road which ...

We were up early this morning as we thought the gardener was coming for our first maintenance visit, but it turned out there was a communications breakdown and she wasn't coming until this afternoon.

From the Sun to the Moon Following yesterday's sunrise blip it was a Hunter's moon capture this morning.

The day started off well with Penny informing us that Alan's tracking hoist in his bedroom wasn't working. D contacted the company who services the hoist and they said someone would be out before ...

Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies.

...and a little bit of purple in the cornfield... A good run back down the A1M this morning, and arrived in time for a quick lunch followed by petanque in the sunshine.

We had a lovely time at a loch today where we saw this otter enjoying time out in the seaweed! We went off for coffee and cake afterwards at a remarkable cafe - at the end of a road to nowhere, but ...

It is a heavily overcast day here, unusual for us, so the fall colors really popped. Laney enjoyed the change of locale and totally ignored the few dogs we came across. We went twice as far as we ...

Rob had his procedure today and the surgeon was very happy with it. Our friend Andy took us in and we walked around in the sunshine and had coffee while Rob was being treated. The local anaesthetic is ...

Minor collision on the High St. I'm sure I heard a hissed 'pr*ck' somewhere, and to be fair, the gentleman with the dog was wandering about like a fart in a trance, as they say. Grey day, gey grey.