trees


Every morning on the way to work Graeme and I drive past these:

Dunecht Gates

We believed it to be the entrance to a private estate, but always saw a variety of cars parked in the lot in front of the gates.  This led us to wondering whether, in fact, we were wrong, so two weeks ago, Graeme and I parked our car amongst the others, walked through the gates, and were not struck down by lightening.  So we ventured a little further, and then a little further than that.  And we found this:

Dunecht Lane

Which led us past neatly ploughed fields to:

Dunecht House Gates

To the right of which was:

Dunecht Home

After I had conquered my house envy by telling myself how much cleaning I would need to do to keep something like that tidy (but secretly vowing to begin playing the lottery), Graeme and I continued walking along the road, past a golf course (members from a specific cachement area only, and only if two other members have invited you to join), enjoying the Autumn colours,

fall colours

acting silly,

shadows

And generally enjoying the fine day and the fine walk, where we saw labrador retrievers in training, a skidder doing skidder-type things, horses, ducks, swans and even a heron.  None of which you can see in this next picture.

Crystal

A couple of people suggested that the nameless ‘brain with wings’ tree is sumac. I’ve just done a google search and that’s not it. Keep the ideas coming, though, please. Sumac does pretty, fall-colour stuff and my tree doesn’t. Also, although my tree’s berries hang out with each other, like sumac’s does. My tree’s berries hang out in round bunches rather than pillar-shaped berries.

Sumac:

Our tree:


And here’s a picture of the beautiful Aberdeenshire sky.


Still haven’t looked it up.


Sycamore


Rowan


Plum


Lilac


Holly

Photographed 18th April (For the photos taken on the April 8th, go here.)


Sycamore


Rowan


Plum


Brain with wings


Blue-flowered weed of some ilk
(Bob has told me the name, but I have forgotten it.)

And does anyone else think this thsitle resembles a spider?


Sycamore


Rowan


Plum


Lilac


Beech


Goodness knows what. Beautiful red berries in the autumn, though.

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