Picture post: North Berwick at the end of May.

At the end of May, I went down to North Berwick a few times, taking lots of pictures of course. All of the pictures below link back to my flickr album, where you'll find more pics that I haven't posted here.



The apple trees had bloomed with lovely delicate pink flowers since I was there last (nice weather has been a long time coming this year). We've got two apple trees: one that produces enormous cooking apples, and once that produces lovely crunchy cox's pippin type apples. The sort that make wonderful apple pie.


We went for a walk down to the harbour, where I had a pang of jealousy:

My boat is in storage at the moment, and I have to get club membership before I can borrow their boats. Hopefully I'll get dinghy sailing soon: there's nothing so exhilarating as the feeling when you catch the wind and take off, flying over the waves.

We wandered back along the beach, where we met a rather friendly collie and his owner, who was someone my father knew in the sailing club. The collie sized us all up, then deposited his stick at my feet. After having me throw it along the beach numerous times, he decided he wanted a swim. I tried to resist his attempts to take me paddling with him:


But ultimately, who can resist an enthusiastic (if somewhat damp) collie bouncing about and grinning at you? Certainly not I. He was successful:


More pictures under the cut:



I had lots of practice throwing.


And got fairly wet myself. it was a warm day though, and the water was lovely and refreshing on my feet:


Sometimes I wasn't quick enough picking up the stick.


If I got tired, he certainly didn't! We were doing this for almost an hour:


It began to get dark, and the yachts which had been out sailing came in to the harbour, silhouetted against the sun.


The following weekend, there was an amazing sunset. The clouds moving overhead were impressive:


The sun was pretty behind the boats moored in the bay:


But it was as the sun got lower that it really became breathtakingly beautiful:


I took plenty of pictures.


It didn't lose any beauty as it got darker:




The following day we went for a walk. On the way I spotted this rather nice pleasure yacht pootling up the Forth:

That thing could go anywhere round the world. Want!

We had a picnic on one of my favourite beaches:


There's a nice view of Bass Rock, and out to sea. Norway's out in that direction.


I like this beach because usually there's no-one around.