The Saturday before last we went to St Andrews for the afternoon.

It’s one of our favourite places. We stopped at the Botanic Gardens to look at the plants for sale.

By coincidence it was the day of the Leuchars Air Show. The assistant mentioned that she hadn’t heard the aeroplanes much so far. On the way back to the car (50 metres?) we were subjected to a blast of sound and 8 aircraft in formation swung over the trees. I didn’t have my camera out then unfortunately, but I did later.

I just timed this right to get four aircraft above the church in South Street.

Here’s one of four in formation.

And this is “patriotic” smoke trails.

The eight halfway decent photos I took are on my flickr site.

I’m glad I got the pictures because with the RAF leaving Leuchars soon there won’t be many more opportunities.

These photos were taken about a month or so ago.

This is a panorama of Edinburgh from the Botanic Gardens with Arthur’s Seat prominent towards the left and the Castle to the right.

This heron was in the Water of Leith as we walked back from the Botanics. It may or may not be the same one we have seen before.

This is one of Antony Gormley‘s sculptures. It is embedded into the tarmac in the middle of the pedestrian entrance from Belford Road into the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.