New Years Day Walk

 So probably because we felt like we have been confined to this end of Orkney for far too long, yesterday we set off in the car north and west  to find somewhere good for a walk. We decided to stop in Finstown, basically because it's there. It's the  sort of place that you tend to drive through rather than stop at unless you happen to live there. It's a fairly unremarkable village but beautifully positioned on the coast with two small islands in the bay and several other slightly larger ones visible on a clear day. There are also some very nice older houses and, unbeknownst to me because I don't take the interest the OH does in stuff, a new park.  

The park features running water which is rarer than you might think on Orkney

and also an arched gateway, I'm always a  sucker for those 

I'd thought it might be all a bit brown and barren at this time of year but actually some of the trees had lots of colour -

-and there was white honesty

and red berries 

and pink blossom - that one's a bit out of focus sadly

and when we came home I did some work on the first foot cowl. 

Not a bad day all in all. I even quite enjoyed the Dr Who special.