July 2021

Welcome to our July 2021 blog, hope you enjoy this month's photos.

Isn't it wonderful that each of these pretty white flowers will soon produce a shiny green luscious bell pepper.

One morning's harvest and they still keep coming

A verse of gratitude

Thank you for the world so sweet,

 thank you for the food we eat.

Thank you for the birds that sing,

thank you Earth for everything.

practice three times a day

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Malcolm thought that he'd have a go at making a solar dehydrator so that we could prolong the life of our strawberries - a bit of a slow job but it's working

On my daily round of muck picking I come across many dung beetles, they are beautiful shiny black creatures but when you see them from underneath

they are a magnificent electric midnight blue !

Wilma likes to make the most of those sunshine days, spread out on an old duvet under the parasol

or in the long grass

Tilly likes to make her presence heard

Isn't this what wheelbarrows are for ?

The hens are getting elderly, we are now down to three and one gentleman cockerel 

and my big brown-eyed pony is chilled as ever

I joined them for a bit of chilling out time too

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Pause for thought

from Scottish Women's Institute Facebook page

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On the shores of Loch Ewe

Evening calm

Not altered at all, a heart shape just as the tide left it

The outgoing tide left these lines on the sand reminding me of a cardiogram image

A most beautiful full moon this month

Travelers of style

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Quote of the month

John Burroughs

American naturalist and nature essayist  - (1837 - 1921)

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from Scottish Women's Institute Facebook page 

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Books of the month

An old favorite on the book shelves

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Inspiration for the month ahead

                                from Scottish Women's Institute facebook page

The End

That's all our photos for this month, so until next month we wish you a wonderful August

June and Malcolm

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from Tao & Zen Facebook page

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