Home alone again!

Took my sister down to the airport in Inverness today and sat down for tea just Steve and I for the first time in nearly a month, as we have had visitors with us since 27th April. It was sad to see Carly go - she was only here 5 days and I felt really quite lost and lonely when i'd said goodbye to her.

Yesterday we went to John O' Groats and while we were there had a look round the relatively new Craft Centre. There's a candle shop, woollen shop, fripperies and a beautiful pottery. There is also an empty unit up there which caught my attention. I keep having images in my head now of my own little gallery with an area for me to work in front of the public and prints and gifts and postcards etc on sale, as well as originals. It's just a dream at the moment, but you know how some things stick in your head - well this has stuck in mine and I think needs further thinking about!

Shell Beach

My parents-in-law are staying with us at the moment so we are showing them a few of the sights. We had an absoloutely beautiful day today - blue skies, hardly any wind and lovely and warm, so we went to Shell Beach after tea to walk the dogs. Shell Beach is between John O' Groats and Duncansby Head and is so called beacuse the sand is made up of broken shells. It's amazing, i've never seen anything like it. I took loads of photographs, here is just a few. Enjoy!

This one is on Macro setting on my camera, and is a close-up of the shells.

Footsteps in the sand: I likes the footprints the dogs and us and the birds had made in the sand. Another one playing around with the macro setting.

This one I just liked the angle of the rocks - just playing with diagonal lead-in lines.

This is Jerry, my Springer Spaniel. I thought it was a nice arty-farty shot of the dog!

And this last one, I just loved the shape and smoothness of the rocks, again playing with diagonal lines.