Still flowering

I can't believe that the temperature went all the way down to +8.3 last night! It's a bit damp, but certainly not cold - it was 9.2 when I looked out not long ago.

Sorting out photographs again this morning - hand-in for Competition 6 on Wednesday night and also for the Argyll inter-club competition known as the Frank Walton Trophy after its instigator, who owned the camera shop in Oban. I'll have a busy morning on Thursday sorting them all out ready for the judges!

I decided to go for a short walk after lunch, but while ascending the steps which go up from Longsdale Road to the houses above I saw a friend out in her garden with the dog, so called in for a chat with her and her husband which lasted far longer than I'd intended! 

It was getting rather gloomy by the time I got away, so I snapped a few bits and pieces including the cat over the road, so Elmo is my extra today. He usually avoids me and I could see him beginning to twitch as I went over to take his picture! Today's Blip is of a white form of Olearia phlogopappa, sometimes called Olearia stellulata, or even Aster stellulata, a dainty Daisy Bush from extreme SE Australia and Tasmania. I don't know if this is a named form, but apparently in the wild it's normally white, though pink or blue in cultivation. I brought cuttings with me from Arduaine and have two plants out on the drive bed. I'm surprised to see that they're still flowering after the frost and snow we've had.