I just downloaded? uploaded? what is the difference? all of Lynn’s photos from our Orkney adventure. Many of them I will be putting into the earlier posts in their appropriate spots but because I’m seeing the trip again from a slightly different perspective, I think I will mainly fill this post with a few of her shots. Here are some faces I hadn’t captured, or captured as well, during the Orkney Folk Festival.
Whilst Michael, Lynn and I played Spite & Malice in the hotel in Aberdeen, our veddy English Jill read up on the latest news of the Royals.
I didn’t tell Michael’s story earlier so I’ll put it in here….While we were checking out the dining room Michael was looking for the best place to play cards in the public sitting room. He settled on the table shown above but thought it polite to ask the young woman there if it was okay for us to use it. “Yes”, she said, “but I’ll be hovering.” “Oh, that’s fine,” says Michael, rising slightly up on his toes, “we’ll be hovering too” and then saw that in fact she had a vacuum and was about to do the hoovering. (Another of our favourite Englishisms!)
Here are more photos of more animals. We NEVER tired of watching, exclaiming over and photographing them.
Oystercatchers everywhere
Shearing Day we think might have been the reason everyone was in a small paddock near the barn.
And finally for tonight, for those who perhaps share a wee bit Lynn’s and my mania for the Waulkmill stones, a rich vein of rock ensues:
I am still waiting for Michael’s photographs….tap, tap, tap goes my foot–but here’s one he sent me today of the North Ronaldsay pelt he brought home with his two latest projects.
