Out in the garden.

 Spring is almost (officially) upon us 👍

But, while we wait for February's page to fall of the calendar, nature is already making its moves: the snowdrops are out, the daffodils are pushing through the earth and the smallest buds are beginning to swell on the twigs of trees too long denuded of foliage by the cold and dismal winter.

Looking for any excuse to get out with the camera, I held out for a while - camera in hand - until yet another rain shower had passed overhead, then made my way among these tiny new additions to our garden.

I converted a few to monochrome as well. I hope you enjoy them.

Bit of a walk???

 St. Tropez? Bit of a walk, right enough, but would be well worth it in the end, No?

Joking aside, this is what I believe the guid folks of Blackness call the ‘Whimsy Stone’, and it’s a legend around those parts.

No one seems to know when or why it was carved. It sits against the road as you enter the village and it seems to have been so placed as a joke.

There is no official record of any ‘twinning’ with St. Tropez on the French Cote d’Azure and, in any case, the mileage is wrong.

It is a popular local attraction though, and much photographed by visitors. Those visitors might also note that there is a sign of the Old Hotel (now the excellent ‘Lobster Pot’ restaurant) that confirms the villages twinning with St. Tropez.

More from Moffat ...

Some more captures from my recent trip to Moffat in the new motorhome.