Easter Walk by Portmore Reservoir

What an amazing Easter this has turned out to be and with more warm sunny days to come!

Dreaming of a White Easter?

If you were dreaming of a white Easter, we got it! It was a beautiful morning but entirely white all round! Because of the sun things are melting rapidly, but not to worry, more is on it's way tomorrow apparently. This really has been one of the strangest starts to a year, weatherwise. 

Spot the deer! Not easy, I admit but look out for that little white tail!

Flora enjoyed her snow walk but she was even more pleased by our visit to Penicuik Estate in the afternoon, where she met up with her doggy friend and where much dog biscuits were bought (and consumed!). There was some lovely food for us too, served from an Airstream caravan! 

Happy Easter

Easter Bouquet

A White Easter

It's certainly a very unusual Easter with the snow still thick on the ground, in our garden, on the hills and also in Dawyck Botanical Garden. No more snow has fallen but it's too cold for the existing snow to melt and the forecast is that it will stay that way for the coming week. Dawyck looked beautiful in the snow and we had an invigorating walk.

There were also very hopeful signs of the spring flowers to come such as this rhododendron bud. I just hope that the night temperatures won't be making short thrift of them all.

All the daffodil greenery has started to emerge from it's white covering and I am looking forward to seeing my first flowering yellow beauty before too much longer. In the meantime the through views to Dawyck House are lovely.

 Love the reflections here too!

And this is the end of a branch belonging to one of the monkey trees in Dawyck with their lovely fractal patterns.