One of the best things about living here is that I can walk out my front door and walk for miles in the most beautiful countryside.

I do not as a rule take my camera or cell phone (unless I am expecting an important call) as they distract.

I thought every now and then as the season changes I would bring along the camera and share my walk with you. First I walk through the woods.

Along the path by the wheat fields.

Along the track to nowhere, it ends in the middle of a field.

There is such an abundance of colourful wild flowers it is difficult to choose the ones to photograph.

Even the man-made structures enhance the beauty of nature.

I totally love the way the wheat looks fluffy and inviting, dont you want to just dive in?

Along the track towards the farm.

Cornflowers.

The only piece of rubbish I came accross on my walk and even that was beautiful, I took it home.

Cornflowers and dasies, my favourite.

Silver.

Back to gold.

On my way home.

A Scottish memory.

Back along the track by the wheat field.

Throught the woods.

Along the new path I just made and got a very painful sting on the lip ( I looked like I had been in a punch up!) by a hornet whos nest I had disturbed,ouch!

Then home.

Finally some flowers outside my studio.

I am so lucky to have all this and more just outside my door, the wonderful thing is it changes so much, it all depends on what the farmer grows, the weather, the time of day and my mood.

July has been very hot and sunny one day then wet and cold the next, my sunflowers have loved it. I planted them beside the sweetcorn I am trying out.

My son gave me teasle seeds from the Berlin botanical gardens along with giant grey thistle seeds.

The bush rose is wonderful, I dead head it and it keeps on flowering!

The perennial sweet pea is taking over the kitchen window.

I love the colour of this poppy, it came in a mixed bag of HP seeds so fingers crossed it will survive the winter and I will get more.

Purple and blue.

Pink and yellow.

Shades of white.

Fluff helping with a photo shoot of a quilt!

My  dear friend Lizzie came to stay for a few days, I had plans to take her sighseeing all over the place but as soon as Lizzie arrived at the cottage she said I think I would just rather stay here so thats just what we did, the weather was fantastic and we spent the days, sewing, eating and relaxing, it was a super super time.

Lizzie is an great artist so she spent time sketching the flowers and cottage. On the chair are some of the wall hannings we worked on. Lizzie is a wonderful story teller of traditional Scottich tales. http://www.tracscotland.org/tracs/storytelling/directory-of-storytellers/…/lizzie-mcdougall.

I did take her to Ronde to see an open air theatre I thought she would be interested in, she works a lot with the Highland Shakespeare Company  https://www.facebook.com/thehsc.eu/.

We also went to see some barrows, burial mounds and a long barrow.

I had such a lovely time with Lizzie I was really sad to see her leave, I hope she comes again soon.

I was invited to go to a Christmas party in June! Its just something Danes do, have a super  Christmas party for all their friends in June, Christmas is very much a family affair and the weather is usually pretty bad around Christmas time so they leave off haveing a big party until the summer, makes a lot of scense to me. It was great fun and was held in a lovely old barn.

The garden in June, lots of flowers dispite the long very windy days.

The white poppies suffered the most from the wind.

My white foxclove developed an odd flower on the top, does anyone know why that happened?

Finally, this is where I spend the rest of my time in the garden.

Poppet has grown into a beautiful cat, she was found abandoned in the village, starving and covered in ticks and fleas 2 years ago. Just look at her now!

She is the sweetest cat.

A great mouser.

Comes in every night.

Is a daft as a brush, still a kitten at heart.

And makes me laugh every day!

When I try to get photos of finished quilts its usually the wind that hinders me.

This time Bobs took over.

and thought this was just for him.

Its a quilt I made from fabric I won last year in a journal quilt compitition.

The final shipment!

Britannia Lanes of Devon, britannialane.co.uk

Cant fault them, they were amazing, super fast, super efficiant, super helpful and everything single item arrived in perfect condition!

Unloading.

Then they were off to København.

This winter was long and harsh, the very strong winds blew the top of my thatched roof, it was a sorry state and leaked and the rain poured in around the chimeny stacks. 

I tried to call the thatcher chap but after a couple of failed attemts asked my good friend Maria to call him for me as my Danish is poor.

A few days later he arrived with a truck load of thtach and wood. We got by using broken Danish, German and English.

It only took him a day and a half to finish the job!

I cant belive its done, I have been so worried when it rains and the water poured down the walls.

Wow, the roof has never looked this good.

The tulips were amazing this year.

I had to move them in the fall and was not sure how they would do.

I am lucky that the soil is light, sandy and well drained.

and the tulips seem to love it.

My sister, Susan and I visited the ARoS Aarhus art museum when she came for a short stay earlier this year.

Views from “Your Rainbow Panorama”

 “Your Rainbow Panorama” runs all the way rount the roof of the building giving you wonderfully colourful views of Aarhus City.

I loved these sculptures made from plastic cutlery.

And this peaceful painting.

And this crazy huge fabric art!

I had a great time with my sister, I hope she comes to stay again soon.

These beautiful birds came to feed on the apples we put out for all the birds, they came several times to feed.

And another beautiful bird who came to visit.

I needed exta greenhouse space but could not afford a new big polytunnel and saw this one on Ebay, its 6 mtrs x 3 mtrs and it was half price with minamal shipping from the UK, it arrived 3 days after the order was placed!

I added extra posts to make sure it does not blow away with the high winds we get here and dug over the middle before I put the plactic cover on as it was easier to throw the turfs out the sides as I wanted to use them to secure the plastic cover later.

It was nice to see all the lovely snowdrops while I worked.

Once it was all dug and prepared I just popped the top on it was as easy as that! It has lots of velcro ties to secure it to the frame and I dug in the bottom flap to the soil for extra strengh.

I am very pleased with the result, its full of my summer flower seedlings at the moment. The cover in a green mesh covered with plastic that my sister says ends up a mass of holes in a few years but you can buy replacement covers for very little money from the company so I am not worried about that.

We took a trip to the north coast where the North Sea meets the Baltic.

William, Parnika and Alan.

It was a stormy day.

William used one of my quilts to keep warm.I always bundle a load of quilts into the car when we take a trip, you never know when you will need one.

Parnika braving the weather.

I had a busy but very wonderful Christmas holiday with family and friends.

We even got some snow!

The bird table got lights too!

A peaceful evening after the afternoon blazzard!

A giant bar of Lavender and Coconut Oil Soap

Peter harvested loads of lavender while it was in bloom and dried it for me so I have lots of it to add to soap to give it a bit of texture.

The soap turned out just as I hoped, you can never really tell how the dried flowers will react to the lye but I was very happy with this soap, nice and white with just enough flecks of lavender to add interest. I also added a couple of big tablespoons of Lavender Essential oil so it smells good too.

Luffa Soap!

A wanted to add a scrubbing element to a soap , something for the shower after a mucky day in the garden.

I also added lots of dried calendula, saffron and some spice to give it a bit of colour. The saffron dyed some of the luffas pink!

I sliced up a luffa, put them on the bottom od a big plastic tub and poured the soap on top. I poured too much soap in, it would have been better if I had added less so that the luffa’s really stood out, I may trim the soap and rebatch the trimming. But the luffa stood up to the lye without discolouration which was my big worry.

The full moon here in Europe on the 14th and 15th November was amazing but did you know that not only was it the biggest, closest and brightes of the year.

It was the closest supermoon since January 26th 1948!

The moon won’t come this close to the Earth again until November 25th, 2034.

Here we had a fantastic view of it and with it came some really cold and frosty nights.

This represents Mum’s Fergie tractor which she still uses to bring back logs from her woods! She keeps an old tin can on the exhaust to keep the rain out and make it easier to start.

This is her wee house, its really a bit bigger but this is the front, the IRM stands for Iain Ross Moodie, her youngest son who has bought this house and woods for her so she could retire without worry.

Two of her happy cows, Daisy and Pearl who she lovenly looked after when she ran our dairy farm when we were children.

High Hopes the ram she kept on the farm so that she knew when to send for the AI man!

The chickens she kept so she could bake us cakes and scones.

To eat with the raspberry jam she made from the raspberries she grew in the garden.

That Meesh Meesh the cat slept.

Of the endless washing she did that used to blow in the wind on her washing line on the top of the hill.

And later the pumkins she grew with her grandchildren. When we were young we grew turnips and carved them for Halloween!

Her love of owls.

And finally for her love of Scotland, her home.

While it is snowing in Calgary and sleet in Maine here in Denmark it is a beautiful Autumn with crisp frosty mornings and bright sunny days.

I am slowley clearing up the flower border but it is difficult as there are still flowers blooming!

I came across these beautiful inkcap mushrooms while out for a walk with Poppet.

There were lots mote coming up but difficult to photograph, if they all bloom I will take more photos to show you.

And Peter has managed one last flower aranging extravaganza!

I have been enjoying a lovely autumn, sunny days and mild nights, no heating on in this house! Yet!

We have been getting some lovely sunsets.

Very dramatic.

And really very beautiful.