Edinburgh changes her colours

Today Jamie and I spent our Sunday wondering through Edinburgh. We walked up to Bruntsfield first where we had a lovely brunch at the incomparable Three Birds Restaurant - treacle bacon with poached eggs and hollandaise made to perfection. On the way we saw this beautiful Hornbeam hedge.

We then walked down the undulating path that crosses the Links and then crossed back over the Meadows before finishing the home stretch along the canal. The trees were very beautiful today in the thin light.

They are moving from reds and oranges to golds and yellows, as the colours start to run into the death of winter. Winter can be a beautiful season and is necessary, but each year we all die a little and that's getting closer now.