feel the burns

'Some hae meat ..'
Here's Burns Night as she is spoke; taken from the East Lothian Courier, Jan 26. Notice the essential poised knife.
Notice also the message at the bottom right. You have been warned. Usually the paper will print a full double page of pictures, but this year Burns night was Thursday and the paper is printed on Wednesday, so all these events were premature. I also enjoyed the classic local paper design of the central column of text.

Just click on the image for an enlarged image. This was North Berwick's 108th Burns Night (1899) but the event itself began the year after Burns' death (1796) and has been celebrated ever since.

dark and light halves

Looking more closely at the Lime tree pics I notice that it spent more or less 26 weeks without leaves and 26 with; the change from one to the other taking little more than a week both times. This is a surprise because my impression was that the de-leafed half lasted much longer than the be-leafed. Does that make me a pessimist?

Happy New Year

It's the first day of a new year in Lime Tree Land

An animation of the year should be here soon. In the meantime, see the whole year here

I got an invitation to appear at the Pipers' gathering in Vermont in August this year. That's likely to be about two weeks before my Vermont publishers produce my book.

Well,... yes

It seems it will. Hooray.
It's taken since before New Year for me to face trying to post here after so many failures. But it seems to work at present, so we''l continue.
New Year passed as it does, in a suitably entertaining way, and you've probably seen the results on Joel's blog so I won't even attempt to reproduce them here. Just to say, thanks guys, it was fun. Let's do it again next year. I wonder what instruments you'll be playing then ...

and Leo is either in or on his way to London; take care and good luck to you

In other news, the Lime tree nears the end of its year of fame; I'm afraid there have been a few blank spaces over the holiday (and on Marg's birthday, I notice). I'm not going to fill them in from next year's days, I'm going to stop photographing it, I promise, if I can kick the habit.

but will it work in theory

Struggles with Blogger move into a new league; will it even work in practice?