Inchcolm Island

Firstly, I would like to announce a three week long blog hiatus due to holidays.  Hurrah!  

That being done, the topic of tonight's seminar will be Inchcolm Island!   Inchcolm is one of the islands in the Firth of Forth.  There's a very picturesque ruined abbey on it, so one sunnyish day I went to explore it.   I took a bus from Waverley Bridge and then boarded the boat at Queensferry.   It's a great little island!  Not much to see other than the abbey though, just a few WW2 fortifications.   But I had a good time photographing the Abbey and scrambling about in long grass.   I practiced HDR again this trip, and I was quite pleased with the results.   Here are a few of my favorite HDR pics from the day:

                                                                Forth Rail Bridge

                                                                     The Abbey

                                                 I hate whoever put that bin there!

And one non HDR photo that I like:

                                       The late afternoon light on this rock was spectacular!




And for good measure, a seal!

Chocolate and Cough Syrup

You know what are amazing?  These:

Such incredibly yummy chocolates!  What a shame they're also incredibly expensive.   sigh...expensive taste and poverty are a bad combination!   They're basically very good quality giant chocolate buttons that taste like caramel.   Yum yum!



And here's a song I've been listening to lots lately:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhBuAkWKz6Q&feature=related

Breakfast!

Stuck for breakfast ideas?  Try this!

Ingredients:

Instructions are simple: blend!  And you'll get this:

 Yum yum!  Healthy and tasty!   I've tried a few variations and I've found that just about any type of juice works really well.   You only need a little, just to add a bit of tang and make the blending a bit easier.  Blending strawberries can be a bit tricky to start with.   It doesn't have to be vanilla yogurt.  I've also tried this with plain, strawberry, raspberry and Russian Fudge and they all work very well in it.   I have also substituted blueberries for raspberries, which is delicious!  I'm going to continue experimenting because i'm sure there are many more exciting combinations waiting to be discovered.

Enjoy!