This afternoon I went into Stornoway. For once I was dressed for the weather (gales and rain) so I decided to stop on the Briaghe and photograph the waves coming in from the South. Impressive or what!
A Walk Along The Beach
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We may be apart but when I look at the sky and remember that we are standing on the same earth, looking at the same moon, somehow you don't seem so far away after all.
NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF
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SO NEAR
We may be apart but when I look at the sky and remember that we are standing on the same earth, looking at the same moon, somehow you don't seem so far away after all.
LIFE
Life isn't about dawdling to the grave, arriving safely in an attractive, wrinkle-free body but rather an adventure that ends skidding in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, totally worn out, screaming "Yee-ha. What a ride!!"
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain. (With thanks to shabby girl of A Travelling Fish )
But what are plans other than more restrictions? (With thanks to Pauline)
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain. (With thanks to shabby girl of A Travelling Fish )
But what are plans other than more restrictions? (With thanks to Pauline)
Feeling young is fabulous but growing old is a blessing!!!
(A comment on this blog by Jaz who used to write Treacy Travels.)
The trick to pushing 70, GB, is to push back -- hard!!!
(A comment by Carol aka Canadian Chickadee who comments but does not blog)
(A comment on this blog by Jaz who used to write Treacy Travels.)
The trick to pushing 70, GB, is to push back -- hard!!!
(A comment by Carol aka Canadian Chickadee who comments but does not blog)
I am he who I am
- Graham Edwards
- Having lived the majority of my life in the Hebrides where my heart is, I feel I can now call myself a Hebridean. For nine years I lived half my life in New Zealand: a country I love. It was an honour being a part time Kiwi.
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BIRDS SEEN ON THE ISLANDS SINCE APRIL 2008 (Dates refer to Postings)
- Arctic Skua
- Black-backed Gull
- Black-Throated Diver (13/07/12)
- Blackbird (26/06/08)
- Blue Tit (26/06/08)
- Buzzard (14/09/09)
- Chaffinch (26/06/08)(30/05/16)
- Collared Dove
- Common Tern (10/06/08)
- Cuckoo (15/08/11)
- Dunlin (13/08/11)
- Dunnock/Hedgesparrow (11/05/16)
- Eagle (11/08/12)
- Fulmar
- Gannet (10/07/10)
- Goldfinch (21/06/12)
- Great Northern Diver (04/05/11, 19/08/11))
- Great Skua (26/06/12)
- Greenfinch (20/05/08, 28/06/10)
- Grey Wagtail (03/08/11)
- Guillemot (15/09/09)
- Heron (18/09/09, 29/06/10, 14/08/11)
- Herring Gull (04/06/08)
- Hooded Crow (20/10/10)
- House Martin (17/06/13)
- House Sparrow (16/06/08, 09/07/08)
- Jackdaw (26/06/08)
- Kestrel (11/07/12)
- Lapwing (26/06/08)
- Meadow Pipit (14/08/08,09/08/12))
- Merlin (07/08/09)
- Oystercatcher (21/05/08, 13/06/08)
- Pied Wagtail (30/08/09)
- Raven (21/05/08)
- Red Throated Diver
- Redshank (02/06/08)
- Redwing (25/10/08, 22/10/10)
- Reed Bunting (28/05/10)
- Robin (26/06/08)
- Rock Dove/Rock Pigeon (14/07/08)
- Rock Pipit (17/08/09)
- Siberian Chiffchaff
- Siskin (26/06/08)
- Skylark
- Song Thrush (23/09/08)
- Sparrowhawk (10/08/08)
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