After seeing round the house, we adjourned to the Tearoom for a bite of lunch (very tasty but a bit pricey!), then headed off for a walk round some of the forty miles of paths (I think we will have to go back quite a few times before we walk all of them!)
looking up at the house from the rockery
the iron bridge (it wobbles a bit when you walk on it!!)
a much older bridge!
no barriers, just a polite request
I think this might be an orchid, but I haven't been able to find out for sure
back at the house, I took first this photo ........
then this one of the doorstep .... quilt blocks perhaps?
I took this from the car as we drove home - the purple on the hill is the start of the heather flowering - soon there will be a blaze of colour all around the Borders.
We hope to go back before the house closes for the winter, as there is a walk to see the autumn colours - no doubt lots of photos will be taken!!