Flickr Scotland

Hey ! Teacher ............, originally uploaded by Gary_Brown.

" have had a song locked in my head for weeks now !.............its driving me maaaaaad !!"

hooray for bono, originally uploaded by werewegian.

"summer at Glasgow's river city festival so we have what looks like a giant effigy of Bono doing a ski-jump as a bouncy castle? Works for me. Yay!"

Explosion, originally uploaded by ßlϋeωãvε.

"Had Stornoway just been blown up?! It pays to keep looking out the windows to see what the clouds are like. :D"

Heatwave!, originally uploaded by Project 404.

Well I'm enjoying the summer - seems like some of the girls are as well:

Pregnant cows cooling off in the sea have sparked a major rescue operation as a heatwave hit the Highlands.

Up to 20 cows were spotted in the Dornoch Firth, in Easter Ross, resulting in 999 calls (calls to the emergency service) from concerned members of the public.

Coastguard crews from Portmahomack and Dornoch rushed to the scene, along with the Dornoch Inshore Lifeboat.

But the local farmer assured the rescue services that the cows were "chilling out" because of the searing sunshine.

An Aberdeen Coastguard spokesman said: "We got calls about cows in the sea at Dornoch beach, in particular about one up to its neck in water with the tide coming in.

"There was concern they might drown, particularly one that was in mud at the south side of the bridge.

"We tasked the local coastguard teams, who train in that area, and they spoke to the farmer."

'In difficulty'

They were told that many of the cows were pregnant and that they often went into the water to cool down.

"The one that appeared to be in difficulty was called in by the farmer," the spokesman said.

"Once we established that they were not going to be in difficulty we stood the incident down.

"It appears it has been going on for years but we have to respond to concerns raised by members of the public.

"The worry was the farmer, himself, might get into difficulty, but everything was fine."

BBC

port n'Mhuilinn 2, originally uploaded by stantonimagingcom.

"another from the beautiful scottish coastline, had the pleasure of spending the night with this as my backdrop"

Lonely walkers and sky over Portobello beach , originally uploaded by Semi-detached.

A nice brooding sunsetty night over Portobello, looking towards Leith and Newhaven.

graham falls again, originally uploaded by allyzally.

"graham is known to do this routine whenever he climbs a mountain.
i was actually trying to take some serious landscapes but this one is more fun i think."

Pittenweem, originally uploaded by Alex Plode.

Pittenweem to Bass Rock across Forth, Scotland

A bruidhinn air a fon!, originally uploaded by howbeg.

Trunk call!

Portrait of a cow, Friggie-Fraggan, originally uploaded by James_at_Slack.

"No tricks here. That's what was outside the window whilst I was inside this dark abandoned cottage full of cow sh*t."

the bride, originally uploaded by mark gorman.

"spotted on the balcony of the orocco pier from the boathouse. praise the lord!"

blairdaff tree , originally uploaded by pamelaadam.

on the back road

Beach Biker., originally uploaded by jimbodownie.

Porty Promenade.

Cobblestone alleyway, originally uploaded by stripey.suze.

A lane in Dalry