Hebridean colour and grey seas

My first visit to the Western Isles for the Harris Tweed project.

Only a very brief stay this time but just enough time to stop on the half hour drive on the single track road from east coast to west. Miles and miles of peat bog in glorious autumn colours and the mountains of Harris to the south waiting to be explored another time.

A reported force 8 gale for the ferry back to the mainland was.... interesting!

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First frost

A brisk walk to work this morning!

The frost on the car was amazing!!!

Stranded shark

A little lesson in the mysteries of nature... a young basking shark stranded on the beach at Lossiemouth.

There were attempts to get it off the beach but the waves and the exhaustion of the youngster made it impossible. A very sad day.

Devon Tweed???

As I drove through Dartmoor I stumbled across the Bovey Handloom Weavers. Using peddle power Hattersley looms much the same as the Harris Tweed weavers use on the Western Isles, this gentleman has been weaving tweed for the last 30 years.

Summer down on the farm

After the wedding I had two days in Devon and Cornwall visiting boutique wool mills and staying on organic farms meeting the locals.

Summer cheese cake and roses

The most visually delicious wedding in an English country manor!

We stayed in nearby Lacock, the home of Harry Potter and modern photography.

Nairn Beach

A beautiful, still autumn day on the beach at Nairn looking out over the Moray Firth.

Floods in Fochabers Sept