The Soldier's Pool Crawick

This is the Soldiers pool in the Crawick Water close to Crawick Village, Sanquhar.
When my mum was a little girl she used to play along the river and in the woods. The wood are called the Holm Wood's.
When I was young I used to swim in the Soldier's pool and when Hungary we used to light a fire and boil water for tea, we would use our Billycans (old baby milk cans) and when the tea was ready we would site and have our sandwiches that our mums had made for us.
You can see how clean the water is in the rive, and it must be the coldest river around Sanquhar to swim in.
I think that these days only a handful of people swim in the rivers around Sanquhar or Kirkconnel. That's a pity because they are missing out on just being somewhere that is so beautiful

The Birk Burn Kelloholm

In August 2010, I was in Scotland for the day through work. For my lunch, I had called at the Co-op in Kelloholm and bought a sandwich and a bottle of water. I then drove to what we call the Back Road, and stopped next to the Birk Burn. The last time I walked up the Birk Burn I was 17 in 1965. It started to rain only lightly at first so I thought" its only a bi of rain and my skins waterproof" so I set off with my lunch in hand up the Birk Burn. Little did I know, and you would think at my age I should have known better, that the rain would get heaver. Well it did!

I took this photo while sheltering under a Hawthorn Tree. Eating my now soggy sandwiches. An thinking to my self GOD I love being out in the country, in the good old fresh air. At the end of my short walk I was socked to the skin. Then again I have always been a silly sod and I don't see why I should change now.

Sunset over Alvor

After a rainy day in Alvor, there was this lovely sunset. I took this from the apartment I was staying at in 2009. Sometimes when on holiday even bad weather has its good side. I fell in love with Alvor in 2004 and go back on holiday every year. This photo always makes me feel at peace, and that even when the weather is bad there is still beauty.