Concentric

Fencepost fo the Week #17

Hopefully Yours

My local writer's group - The Raggedy Hopefuls - stopped for the summer yesterday, but we finished on a high  with the release of 'Hopefully Yours' - our first collection of writings. It was produced by Eleanor McKay of the Argyll and Bute Library Service and is available as part of the Local Collections at all the libraries in the area. Here is the cover and foreword:

A Collection of Short Stories and Poems 

From The Raggedy Hopefuls April 2011

Hello from the Raggedy Hopefuls, amateur writers from Dunoon and the Cowal area. We are a relatively new group, having started meeting in February of 2010. We hope our work will amuse, entertain or inspire you, and perhaps give you a few laughs. Our members invented most of the snazzy titles for these stories over coffees at various locations around town. At each meeting we would decide on a theme or subject for the next meeting and everyone would try to write a story involving that theme to present next time.  

Please visit our website at http://raggedy.webs.com for more information about us and to read more of our work. 

Edited by Jacqueline Couch 

Cover design by Ben Mitchell and Rima DeFord

We are currently looking at ways to get this work into wider circulation, perhaps using a print on demand book service, or similar. In the meantime, you can read many of our stories at the raggedy.webs forums - take a wee look!

Rainbows!

Scenic Sundays #13












I joined a volunteer work party on the John Muir Trust estate in Knoydart for the last weekend in May. We had a lovely long weekend renovating a footpath and doing some plant surveys.

The weather was pretty bad - strong winds and lots of rain, but I did get some nice, moody landscape photographs - most of them were taken while standing in the entrance to my tent - it was too wet to risk taking my camera outside much.

Follow this link for an animated version of the above rainbow - the animation was programmed by me in javascript, and may not be compatible with your web browser, apologies in advance for the amateurish code.

Matchstick Lichen

Fencepost of the Week #16

And a neighbouring post, taken on the same day is online here. Note: this uses my badly written javascript to do an animated focus pull - my programming may not be compatible with your browser!

Wolf Spider & Slow Worm

Wildlife Wednesdays #17

Two for one!

Five of a Kind

While they are whimsically attractive, these are not proper huts. Visit http://www.reforestingscotland.org/projects/huts.php for proper huts!

The Beavers are Back!

Wildlife Wednesdays #16

The beavers are back in Scotland - after an absence of several centuries. Here's a brand new beaver dam in Knapdale.