There is a meme thingy on social media inviting people to post seven nature photos in seven days.  It seemed like maybe a nice idea to share the same photos, and my reasons for choosing them, here.

This jolly puffin was photographed on Staffa in June 2011.  It was my first "AD" holiday and I was determined to make the very best of it.  To fulfil a very old promise, I was paying a return visit to Oban where 14 years earlier, with some friends, I'd been on a tour of the  distillery.  We made a pact to retun in 2011 to collect a bottle of 'our' whisky.  Times changed, but I remembered the promise and I returned... I expect the friend has long since consumed and forgotten the whisky, let alone its significance!!

One very special day of my holiday was the Mull-Staffa-Iona trip, and on Mull I chose to go puffin spotting rather than entering Fingall's Cave (not time for both).  This cheeky chappy is a wonderful reminder of a very 'golden' day at a time when I was beginning to discover what "new normal" might mean.  Almost five years on I can still recall the wonder of a day on which I saw puffins, eagles and dolphins.

Another nature photo, and another memory tomorrow!