Summer Loving

Still August - still Summer - still loving

Beach days

Wild flowers

Messing about in old boats

or just messing about on the water.

Apples

Rain freshened mornings

new perspectives

Cloud watching.

and more beach days

So, where will the road take you this week?

This will be the last of my Summer Loving posts for this year.  The land is beginning to take on a richer hue, and Autumn is seeping in at the edges.  I have loved sharing snapshots of our Summer days with you all, and would like to thank you for joining me, and leaving such lovely comments.
I hope you have had a wonderful Summertime, and that your harvests have been joyful and abundant.
Blessings of the season to you all ♥

Summer Loving

A busier time this week as we have been easing ourselves out of holiday mode.  We had a lovely day, midweek at the show, but otherwise we have been getting on with work around the croft.

Loving these everyday chores

picking peas

making hay while the sun shines

moving the cows on to the hill grazing.

getting ready to bring the peats home

celebrating at a post wedding barbecue in the village,  (Thankfully the newly weds have somewhere else to stay until their beautiful new house - designed and built by the groom and his father, is ready)

and cooling our feet in the ocean.

I wonder what the tide will bring in next week?

Summer is such a busy time, and so much is going on that I want to hold on to - especially now we are into August. Each Sunday I am posting a series of snapshots of things I have loved in the past week.  Those ordinary but special moments that might have gone unnoticed or forgotten  Trying to distill the love and joy from this hectic Summer season to remember with gratitude and warmth when the days are short again.

Summer Loving

A lot to love over the past two weeks, with my elder daughter, son in law and two grandchildren joining us for their Summer break. We had such a wonderful time, and miss them so much.  A much longer post than normal today, then, as I relive some of those precious memories.

Long lazy breakfasts

Reconnecting with the sacred stones.

Superheroes - superdogs too.

Beach days, which turn into beach evenings.

Gorgeous girls

Candy floss

Boys - and tractors

Crafting and cooking sessions in the kitchen.  Erin joining in already.

Visiting a Blackhouse.  

Finding a fabulous new deli-takeaway nearby - with the best beet salad in the world (probably)

Lovely gifts from Blog friends. 

( Two in the post - thank you to, lovely Claire for the Friendship heart -such a lovely surprise; and my headscarf giveaway prize, courtesy of the wonderful Joxy.  I was priveleged to meet Christine, her family, and their friends for a quick coffee at the Calanais centre and touched by her beautiful gift of a handknitted Angel dischcloth.  It was so nice to meet them, and Christine is every bit as lovely as she sounds on her blog.)

Loving, two boys in the back of our truck, listening to Finlay singing and endless repeats of this cd. Loving too, how James looks just slightly fed up with it all.  Ten days of non-stop action and play takes its toll even on Superheroes.

So, we loved some quiet pyjama mornings too.

Garden open day around the local villages - total inspiration.

And off we go, on our own again - spinning into the next week.  

Summer is such a busy time, and so much is going on that I want to hold on to - especially now as we head into August. Each Sunday I am posting a series of snapshots of things I have loved in the past week.  Those ordinary but special moments that might have gone unnoticed or forgotten  Trying to distill the love and joy from this hectic Summer season to remember with gratitude and warmth when the days are short again.

Giveaway prizes are now ready to be posted off tomorrow. 

Summer Loving

This week I have loved:

Going out for breakfast.

Men who mow.

Harris Tweed mills.

Sheepdog trials.

Lifeboats

and beaches.

Sheilings,*

strings

 scrapyards,

finding footprints from long ago on our garden path

and getting creative in the kitchen.

Phew - let's get ready now to glide smoothly into another week.

Summer is such a busy time, and so much is going on that I want to hold on to. Each Sunday I am posting a series of snapshots of things I have loved in the past week.  Those ordinary but special moments that might have gone unnoticed or forgotten  Trying to distill the love and joy from this hectic Summer season to remember with gratitude and warmth when the days are short again.

Don't forget to check out my lucky bag giveaway  - comments can be left until Thursday.

* These are modern sheilings, still used mainly at peat cutting time, rather than the traditional summer sheilings described in the link page.