Over the Sea to Skye and Hooray, My Camera Uploaded!

 Thankyou for all your helpful comments when my laptop met its demise last week. It still lies dormant but I think there might yet be a way of retrieving lost things.

A big thankyou and welcome to new followers too! I've just come back from a few days away so I hope you didn't feel too abandoned by me. ;)

To make up for it I'm doing a longer than usual post to share with you the most amazing images I've been enjoying over the last few days. Now remember I don't have Photoshop any more and so have no way of 'tweaking' these pictures to exaggerate the colours, so what you see here is just as it came straight off the camera!

So pull up a chair, pour yourself a nice cup of tea (or coffee!) and be amazed....

I've been away to the isle of Skye in Scotland. Can you believe the colours in this picture?! This was 10 o'clock one evening, yes, I said 10 o'clock in the evening. The sun didn't set until 11! Remember I don't have Photoshop any more, this is real. :)

 

 A bit of a contrast to the last picture but stunning all the same. This is the view across to the Isle of Skye taken from the ferry. Look at those mountains beckoning in the distance.

 This lovely bright green tempted me to try out the close-up setting on my camera. :)



 Even my previously sulky teenager was impressed by the scenery. ;)

 If you're going to be a sheep, this would be the place of choice to live don't you think?

 Both night and day, the skies wore their best dresses.

 So many textures to inspire.

 I couldn't go to Scotland and miss taking a photo of this beautiful scottish thistle now could I?!

Spot the daughter walking. (A rare treat for me to see this.)

The most magical place you could ever encounter is the  Fairy Glen. Tiny trees, bracken and hills.

Everything in miniature!

It was all it promised to be. :)

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Now that my camera can upload its pictures, I'm happy to tell you that I can now show you the photos I took when I opened my prize that I told you about in my last post. Better late than never!

Beautifully packaged, thankyou! :)

 She sits on top of the piano for all to see. A perfect colour match for my turquoise walls! :) You can see more of Micki's paintings here.