<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=198" rel="attachment wp-att-198"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-198" title="Findhorn_Community_houses" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Findhorn_Community_houses.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>We spent a few busy days with Tony &amp; Jude, enjoying their hospitality, their lovely garden and its produce, and we also saw some of the beautiful countryside and beaches along the Moray Firth - Forres, Elgin and Findhorn.

The houses in the Findhorn Community are particularly fascinating as they are of a variety of designs and all aimed at being carbon neutral.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=199" rel="attachment wp-att-199"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-199" title="T&amp;J_Brodie_Castle" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/TJ_Brodie_Castle.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>We also went to a classic car and motorbike show at Brodie Castle where Tony &amp; Jude were particularly fascinated by some of the bikes. Jane and I were more interested in the cars that we had either owned or wished we'd owned over the past forty years. Of course there were many that we wouldn't wish to have at any cost but we did see an old Austin Healy 3000 similar to one we nearly bought back in the 1970s. It was a good nostalgia trip and the sun shone all afternoon.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=201" rel="attachment wp-att-201"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-201" title="fly_agaric" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/fly_agaric.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>We also walked from just outside Forres into the town itself along some wonderful, wooded tracks with peaty burns running through. We saw some fungii that I don't think we've ever seen before - Fly Agaric. Jane as always had a camera to hand.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=200" rel="attachment wp-att-200"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-200" title="T&amp;J+S&amp;J_stone_circles" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/TJ+SJ_stone_circles.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>With our short stay coming to a close very quickly we just found time to visit some stone circles that were about 4,000 years old. Tony &amp; Jude come here on the shortest day and if the sun is shining the suns rays at sunset are in line with the entrance to the stone circles. It just so happened we were there at a time when our shadows followed the entrance into the circles - spooky.

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