Coldwaterjohn's photos

These lovely birds appeared all of a sudden this morning, in the treetops down in the pond garden. They are winter berry-eating visitors from Scandinavia, and curiously fearless - I was able to walk right under the tree the flock was perched in, without their showing any sign of alarm...

The Episcopal Church in Forres from Grant Park. Forres is a multiple winner of the British Town in Bloom annual competitions.

Grant Park. Forres is a multiple winner of the British Town in Bloom annual competitions.

The Scottish bagpipe Championships will be held in Grant Park Forres in 2013.

Grant Park. Forres is a multiple winner of the British Town in Bloom annual competitions.

Dreich day at the Mercat Cross in Forres. Even the hanging flower baskets look depressed!

Wet afternoon in Forres High Street

Would you care for a drop of Scotch Whisky from the cellar?

- and this is Scottish Baronial architecture at its finest.

Please don't ask me the name of all the flowers!

- but the sun shone all day - first time for a fortnight.

Young siskin, dazed after a mid-flight collision with a pane of glass. Recovered within a few minutes and was on its way.

This Hahn Landeron movement has been ticking away accurately since 1890...

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