Paint, plants and sunshine

Another sunny day - I set off at 10.15am to clean up my usual circuit. A few other groups/people are out and about today on the Oban Spring Clean. One group sent in pictures of a horrendous pile they'd collected - several dozen bags of stinking garbage, but we won't say where from!  The council has been informed and we hope the stuff will be picked up tomorrow.

Lunch on the deck - but we have a fairly chilly breeze blowing up here; it comes and goes. Spending some time this afternoon planting up the tubs with various odds and sods of bedding and continuing along the line of crates checking and sorting my huge collection of potted plants. I hope to get more of them out this spring and summer. 

My extra today is of Mairi Ross, a volunteer at the Rockfield Centre, one-time local school. We talked about the problem that some local people complain about incomers trying to get things done in the town. She told me her family had been born in Oban for seven generations and she was delighted that all sorts of people worked together to make the town a better place. She's taken on the huge job of painting the railings, firstly with pink undercoat then a top coat of Rockfield Red!