Blue skies and shortening days

 At last it appears that summer has arrived in Buchan. However, last week on the Wastart we have found large patches of purple  heather and the first of the bluebells, sure signs that the days are starting to shorten.

Purple heather (Erica cinerea)

Bluebells or harebells? Certainly Campanula rotundifolia  on the  Bents at Inverallochy.  Not being willing to acknowledge that we are far enough in to the year for these delicate harbingers of autumn to be in bloom, I mistook the first solitary blue flower for one of the few Common Blue butterflies  fluttering about in the sunshine.