Wednesday Walk - around the Cammo Estate

I went out for a nice walk around the Cammo Estate on the edge of Edinburgh last night. It was a lovely evening, and a great way to relax a little.

We'd had a little rainfall during the last few days so the greenery was looking rather lush.

The farmer has recently plowed and planted the fields around the Estate, and I was admiring his work - nice straight lines !!!

I walked out past Cammo tower, which is an old folly. Its ruined inside, and you cant get access into to. Its pretty though.

I continued past the tower and up the small hill beside it to get a nice view back from where I'd come. It was quite warm, and it stayed dry even if the clouds were looking a little threatening in places.

These wild flowers/weeds were standing as tall as me (I'm 6'1''), so are certainly thriving nicely.

I also spotted these small pretty purple wild flowers further along the route I took.

I went passed the old walled garden on the estate. These were the old main gates into the garden. It must have been pretty impressive at one point, although is now a ruin and overgrown.

According to the info board there the walled garden was built back in 1780 !

Thats the old fire place in the gardeners hut to the side of the gates.

I little further along, I spotted this freshly cut stump from one of the old trees here. Being an old private estate, there are a lot of impressive large old trees around. Some of those are getting too old and a little dangerous, so you often see where they have been recently cut down. Its better than having huge limbs, or trunks falling and killing someone.

It really was a nice evening for a walk, and I was glad I made the effort to get out.

All the best from Scotland. Cheers @hoosie

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