Swan in Late November

 

Swan on River Tweed 1

 

River

By Coldstream Bridge, November

The Boat Across the Tweed

I’m in England, taking this photograph (and with an unwarranted private sign behind me, as the river path is, I have been told, a public right-of-way); and the boat is tied up in Scotland, waiting for a salmon fisherman to commandeer it.

The Border Bridge in Coldstream

Swan on the Tweed

Plants above River Tweed

Bindweed

 

Been away from the paths for most of this summer, and now I find the first signs of autumn as I go up Nun’s Walk above River Tweed.  Bindweed everywhere, and fly-ridden blackberries, and fireweed flossing, and the buddleia almost over; and the first leaves colouring and falling. But it is still humid, and this year there are insects and butterflies all over. Have started  a new story, takes place in the snow.

Sky Above Tweed