Nasturtium with plans for world domination

The bookends of the day have offered reasonable weather. It was quite warm and sunny after breakfast and I spent a bit of time out there (and in some later gaps between heavy showers) pulling out crocosmia stalks before they get a chance to develop further and doing some bits of tidying up. I also sat on the bench and drank my mid morning tea looking at the view offered by the two main pictures, as well as snapping some close up pictures, e.g. of the nasturtium that seems to have plans for world domination. There's also a flower (top right) for which we don't have a name, so help would be welcome. Mr A took a close up of it today. He bought the plant from the local garden centre, and put it in the garden, but we don't seem to have retained the identifying label.

It was sunshine and showers, too, when we popped down to the supermarket, and that was when I snapped the asiatic lilies, which are yet to flower, looking wet but shiny (third one down on the right).

At 6pm I went over to Shandwick Beach and had a very refreshing swim with the team. We drifted gently as a group over to the rocks at the side of the beach, and then drifted back. And we saw dolphins out in the Moray Firth (well, not that far out because they were well visible to the naked eye). Soon after we arrived and they appeared, a couple of boats came out from the harbour in Balintore, and the dolphins seemed to be having fun diving and swimming around the boats. I also saw quite a large crab scuttling along the sea bed and a few jellies, but not too many. Not like the soup we had a week ago.

Weatherwise, the evening has been reasonable. But there is forecast rain for every day for the foreseeable future.... Not good. June was too dry, but this is a bit daft.