I love to take the dogs for a walk on Stirling Hill, just to the south-west of the village of Boddam, near Peterhead. The local Community Association are to be congratulated for developing a network of paths on this little hill, among the remnants of the old quarries, the source of much of the Peterhead pink granite. There is still a bit of the old main road preserved which makes parking easy and it is only ten minutes in the car from my house. But it was just Poppy and me today, while Lily paid a visit to an old friend in Hatton.
Despite the grey overcast skies there was plenty to photograph: the Buchanness Lighthouse peeping over the edge of the quarry; an oil supply boat lying off Boddam, waiting to go into Peterhead Harbour; a couple of Highland cows admiring the view; and of course, Poppy sprinting and leaping about.