Summer Flowers

It's a glorious day today in Kilchoan, the sun out and the wildflowers glowing in the hedgerows and on the braes above the croft land.  Amongst other flowers there's vetch, above, which is thriving on the roadside by Mull View, one of Steading Holiday's letting houses.

There's plenty of yarrow in bloom, with its tight heads of multiple small flowers.  Some of the local plants seem to have a bluish tinge to their flowers, while others are more Persil-white.

This buttercup has found a sheltered corner in amongst the grasses on Cruachan croft....

....while numerous campion plants are producing their fragile, pale pink blooms at the back of Lighthouse View croft.

Close by, several cross-leaved heath plants are in rude health, not only flowering but showing every sign of being in vigorous growth.

We're not too sure what this is, perhaps one of the hawkweeds or hawkbeards, but there's plenty of it to be found - not only with flowers but buds, promising more flowers to come.

Hasn't anyone told this lot that it's late November and, from the grey clouds looming over Druim na Gearr Leacainn, that it looks like snow at any minute?