By Luggate Water

Unlocked, distanced visit to very old - by which i mean, long-standing - friends in Stow for a chatty stroll over to Luggate Water then back via the ridge line to the field above.

Such joy to be out and away, up a border hill and looking far.

(Firsts of 2021 - hares, curlews, skylarks, violas, coconut-scented gorse, stoat, lambs, Stow, exiting Edinburgh)