GallowayHermit

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A chalkboard stand outside a bookshop which reads: abiblophobia - noun - fear of running out of reading material. If you or someone you know has been affected by this definition, please come inside. Help is available!
Text as in the post but spiralling in from outside to centre on the concrete support. Below, a hazy picture of the town is overgrown by ivy.
Taken outside the museum on Mainland, Shetland, three flags flying - Shetland, Norway, the Union flag.
A Morning Glory climber, stunning violet-blue trumpets with white centres, three blooming and one fading on the same stem. It's only supposed to show one at a time, and in late Spring, not late Autumn.
Two morning glory blooms, trumpet shaped, one fresh opened, brilliant blue with a white heart, one starting to fade. The leaves are also beginning to fade.
Sun pours through this window in the thick sandstone walls, staining the rock red, blue and yellow
Close-up of smoke bush with pink, red and burgundy foliage, tiny droplets of rain clinging to spidery branching stems of florets. It really does look live up to its name today.
View across Kirkwall roofs from the Bishop's Palace tower, past St Magnus cathedral showing Norwegian flag. Distant glimpse of the bay and hills beyond
Small official sign in a lay-by on the A9, south of Inverness. Blue background, white text. It says: Are we nearly there yet?
View of Skara Brae ancient village on Orkney taken today. Stone built walls and corridors below ground level, pathway surround.
Foreground, sheep graze grassland. A column of smoke rises behind bare hills in the distance, smeared horizontally by strong breeze.
Cloudless blue sky. Hills in the middle distance, no trees, smoke rising from behind them. Foreground: gorse bushes in full yellow bloom, a sheep grazing lush green grass.
A clear blue sky over the River Cree, placidly flowing past trees carrying lambs' tail blossom. There are rocks in the river. In the distance, houses can be seen on the riverbank. Fluffy clouds on the horizon.