"We Must Go down to the Wood Today" - Sepia Saturday

This week's Sepia Saturday prompt features a vintage car in the distance against a scenic backdrop of trees and mountain.  

I focussed o.n the trees -  We have no shortage of trees  and woods in the Scottish Borders where I live - so enjoy these  calming scenes of nature at its best, whatever the season. 

 

 

  SPRING

 

 

 Woodland lane with the Black Hill in the background.

 

 

 

 Not a woodland, but one of my favourite Tree photographs.  On an April walk around Earlston looking east across to the Lammermuir Hills.

 

 

SUMMER

 

Having fun at Wolfcleuchhead Waterfall in Craik Forest, near Hawick. 
 

 

Looking across to the wooded White Hill, Earlston 

 

 

Trees over the Leader Water, Earlston 

  

 

 

  

 Two views of sunlight in Cowdenknowes Wood,  close to where I live and a regular favourite walk. 

 

 

AUTUMN

 

An array of Autumn colours 
 

 

 A carpet of Autumn leaves, with the Leader Water a streak of blue below.

Little  granddaughter enjoying a walk through the woods at Earlston. 

 

 Looking up at the colours of Autumn gold. 

 

 

Late Autumn in Millbank Woods, Earlston 

 

 

A woodland gateway in late autumn 

 

 

 

Autumn colours at Dawyk Gardens, near Peebles.   

 

 

 

 WINTER 

 2012 - my husband lending a touch of colour  to the winter woodland scene.

2012 - Little granddaughter trudging home in the snow, 

with the trees on the appropriately named  White  Hill ahead.  

 

 

 A winter wonderland by the Leader Water, Earlston 

 

                    

Daughter on the hill above our homer in Hawick. 

 

 

We are so lucky to live in such a beautiful  part of the country 

the Scottish  Borders  

 

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And finally  - not  forgetting  the prompt picture  with that vintage car , here is a misty photograph from my cousin's collection 

 

 

 

 My cousin's first ever car - a 1932 Morris Mino. 

 

The photograph was taken near Inverary in the west of Scotland on the "Rest and Be Thankful Road"  -  It gets its name as it was once a place where people  would stop, rest and be thankful that they have reached the top of their climb through the hilly pass between two glens (valleys).    

 

It's a very popular viewpoint which follows the line of the old military road built in 1753 by General Wade and his soldiers after the unsuccessful  1745 Jacobite Rebellion to put Bonnie Prince Charlie on the throne.   Now notorious for landslips, heavy snowfalls in winter   and road closure  warnings, involving a long detour to get to the coast and the ferries to the islands.  

 

 

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