Menoturals; Eclectica

It's Nature Friday again! I bring you a slightly offbeat connection to nature, though you are perhaps not so surprised about that, given how offbeat I've gone already lately!

First...summer's on the way!!!

Really, nothing screams summer quite so much as a bowl of juicy, luscious berries... am I right? I'm a real berry fiend, but golly, I am noticing how the prices are getting silly for such produce... but that's a whole other discussion.

Next, I spotted a Hooded Crow while parked near The Hutch earlier this month. There are quite a few around now, whereas they used to be found much more north of there. The RSPB now shows them as being resident right down the west coast of Scotland, all the way to the Solway Firth. They are attractive Corvids.

The next three images were taken on my latest visit to the National Gallery of Scotland for the Open exhibition. There were many video installation entries, and Mac1 and I thoroughly enjoyed the eight or nine videos that we watched. In particular, there was a 20-minute film of coastal Scotland, showing all the rocks, the tides, the vegetation, and the fauna—it was positively blissful!

...and here is where I remind all of you who like joining in, that next week is also Final Friday!!!