Reflective

I was out doing some gardening when SWMBO noticed Mr Fisher in the weeds.
He was good enough to hang about while I got the camera and the long lens.
Although the tele-convertor necessitates manual focus the result wasn't too bad.

Late morning SWMBO thought we should go for a drive since it was so nice.
So we went West (for a change) along the Clyde Valley Tourist Trail ....... roughly.
We stopped off for cake and coffee at the furthest point (wherever that was).
On the way back we stopped off at Craignethan Castle. Well, at the road end since Historic Scotland never opens anything before April no matter what (and then charges an arm and a leg if you want to go in).
Since it was a nice day I walked along to the castle - a fair bit further than I expected.
Built in the 1530s  to a "pioneering design" (a cube is "pioneering"?) it struck me as being in a rather weird defensive position. Okay, it is built on the edge of a deep gorge, but it has hills on both sides so would have been easy to lob stuff into. Just as well it is in the middle of nowhere and obviously nobody wanted to go there to claim to be the new owners (apart from James V and Andrew Hay the Covenanter amongst others).
Mr Hay built a house for himself on the front lawn in 1659 when he bought the place.

Between the walking and getting stuck in a queue of traffic at what turned out to be a broken railway crossing I missed the blipmeet in Edinburgh.