A Pagoda at Glendoik

We escaped the mayhem of tourists and traffic in Edinburgh today to drive up to have lunch with cousins at the Drover's Inn at Memus near Forfar.

The sun shone, and the country side was a golden patchwork of ripening fields of grain, while the roadside between Perth and Dundee was bordered by lines of poly tunnels of strawberries. It was high summer here.

En route we stopped for coffee at Glendoik Garden Centre where I found my blip Pagoda.

For the record, we lit two candles last night in memory of our two uncles who died in WW1, but it seemed that our neighbours were not part of the movement to turn off lights at 10 pm to mark the 100 year anniversary of the declaration of war on August 4th 1914.