Along the cliff tops

Early purple orchid

Dog violet and Treshnish Isles

Bending in the wind, Early purple orchid

Along the cliff tops

Those beautiful shimmering isles

Pignut unfurling

Pignut and Bluebell

Heath spotted orchid

Hurrying Herdwicks (on hearing the sound of the feed bag)

Sunlight through White campion

The broody in the boat

Clinging on Sea pinks

The glow of twilight

Sunset over Coll

Three bottle fed lambs become bucket fed lambs

These clifftops, home of tiny pale Mountain Everlasting

Rock rose

Mountain everlasting

Heath pea vetch

Ferns in the Haunn gardens

Bluebells and dark island shapes

Variations on an orchid

These are all variations of the Early purple orchid.  Found on the (steep) slopes of Treshnish Point, last night. 

To the cave.

Farmer is itching to move the cows into the in-bye fields off the hill, as we are running out of hay and they are usually on the fields again by mid May, but there is not enough grass yet.  And there are lovely Early Marsh Orchids in the beyond Haunn field where he wants to put them.... we went to look at the Mountain Everlastings again and decided, as the tide was right to re-visit a cave we have only been to by boat.  There is a story there, which I will add later.