Top Row: Fog in the Meadows as I was leaving Edinburgh; Second Row: frost on berries in Cristy's garden; a frozen-over loch in the mountains above Aviemore; Above: a lochside beach with chunks of ice on the sand; frost flakes on the sand; Below: the two pheasants who served as the centrepiece of our festive feast; Haggis!; Fifth Row: my evil gingerbread man; Cristy's evil gingerbread man; my gimp-style gingerbread man, complete with zipper-mask and an orange Smartie chastity belt; then Nash (top) and Jo (middle) and Cristy (bottom); Sixth Row: our entire array of gingerbread men, including one gingerbread fish and a gingerbread reindeer; Seventh and Bottom Rows: snow covering the farmland and hills of the Cairngorms, seen through the bus window on my southbound journey back to Edinburgh. |
