Sunsets and the garden.....

We've not had the best of weather lately so sunsets are a real treat.....  Even if it is the sun just peeping through the clouds....

And lovely cloudscapes too.....

Painterly skies.....

Meanwhile Hoy was under the duvet.....

But it made waking up to sunshine even more special....

Button loves snoozing in the sun but when it was a wee bit breezy she managed to combine snoozing in the sun with shelter.... on the doormat!

But the garden has responded to all the rain showers and is growing rapidly now after several very dry weeks.  The earth in one border was like sand it was so dry....

On one sunny day Button joined me for some shade under the gooseberry bush!  (I was weeding, she wasn't...)

Everything is very green but slowly colour is coming into the borders...

Columbines, red campion and... a black and white cat....

I love the columbines.... so pretty and dainty yet surprisingly robust.  And best of all they self seed!

Chicken fencing to stop them getting into the fruit and veg patch.  Actually mostly fruit.  I was too late so save some of the gooseberries as many of the ones off the lower branches were eaten by the hens!  But at least the blackcurrants and strawberries should be safe.  And on the pallet will be various salad leaves.  I've cut down on the rest of the veg grown, though I do plan to grow carrots further up the garden hopefully high enough off the ground to avoid carrot fly.

And a random picture of our ferry delivering some cargo.  As we don't have a roll-on-roll-off ferry, any cargo has to be craned on an off.......