The Memory Wanderer

From our house we look across the village playing fields and what was its council house area to Beinn Bhraggie. One of our pleasantest woodland walks is up through the deciduous forestry on the lower slopes though....

....the tracks are shared with some dashing mountain bikers not all of whom have read the signs as far as the words 'Shared Trail'.

An added attraction of these mountain bike trails, two of which we followed on this morning's walk, is that that wend their way steadily uphill providing gradients which suit citizens of our age.

Today's wander took us to the site of the Neolithic chambered cairn described in an earlier post here, located on a knoll with views out across Golspie but, as with so many recent walks, the most interesting finds were fungi....

....of which this one, a bit chewed up by what we guess is slugs, is identified as a pink waxcap - Hygrocybe calyptriformis.

However, we've not been able to identify this beauty, though it does look like another waxcap, despite finding a new website for fungi identification - here.

As we came down the Golspie Tower track towards home the view across the Moray Firth suggested that the fine morning we had enjoyed would give way to some heavy showers, the first of which arrived just as we reached the front door.