I expect you've all been wondering if Gail and I have been out and about with our friends M and J recently.
Silly you if you imagined that our 'not as young as they used to be' walking companions might have retreated indoors for the darker months!
Here we are, enjoying a walk along the River Dee in Aboyne earlier this week.
While M was trying to photograph a noisy flock of geese,
Gail's phone camera did a rather poor job of zooming in on a group of roe deer grazing in the nearby stubble.
After these (variably successful) efforts to find suitable images for the LLB Gang's Nature Friday blog hop, we walked through the village and were pleased to notice that Aboyne's knitters have not been forgetting those killed in wars past and present.
Gail says she can't quite believe that scenes which she thought belonged in the First World War and should have been consigned to history are currently being re-enacted in Ukraine... Today we remember all those who continue to suffer in this appalling and unjustifiable conflict.
