Random.....

 Hoy High lighthouse among the dramatic clouds.... and at the other end of the island - Hoy Low lighthouse!  It doesn't feature so much as I don't go down that way very often... yeah I know it's a small island but...  I will endeavour to take some more pix on a fine day...  Anyway why does such a small island have TWO lighthouses I hear you ask?  They are what are known as "leading lights" and were built to guide the herring fleet through a safe channel into Stromness harbour.  Skippers had to line both the lights up a certain way to get the deepest channel through the entrance to Hoy Sound. Hence Hoy Sound High light and Hoy Sound Low light....

Meanwhile in the garden - hebe this side of the magnificent stone dyke, over the other side fushia, willow and a cordyline.

And here they are nicely framing Hoy High light - in the foreground an Elder and fennel

Um.... two of the girls having a dust bath!

And one of them later sitting by Button's cat flap.  I have NO idea why..... but she looks quite comfortable....

Though she and I had a slight altercation earlier as I found she had gone broody among the shrubbery...

Nearly two dozen eggs!  The baggage!!!  I cleared the nest and thankfully she has given up now sitting now.  I'm not sure if ALL the eggs were hers.  Anyway once a hen starts brooding eggs she stops laying so... now she's not laying!  

And another sunset!!