Saturday, September 15, 2018

Orkney to Tuscany, Part Seven

We're off to Barga once again.   We have had a fabulous summer of weather in Orkney, and the flowers and inhabitants have bloomed in proportion.

The Merlin, a favourite boat in Stromness harbour, one of the last of the traditional lobster fishing boats, skippered for 60 years by Willie Sinclair 

A field of barley lies ripe for harvest.  For the afficionado, this no ordinary barley, but the ancient, 6-rowed variety, called "bere" in Orkney, and traditionally baked into bannocks

Barbara with her Shetland cousin Morag, who was recently down in Stromness to play in the inter-county golf tournament

The Thursday night dinghy racing - a good night for the photographer, not so good for the sailor!

Somewhere, under the rainbow - Barbara's Japanese anemones standing proud beneath a late evening rainbow.  We have had so many beautiful evenings.

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