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<\/a>\nHaving parked at the railway station, Bob caught me up. The plan was to walk to Stewarton and come back by train.
\nAlthough the road was largely straight on a wet and windy day that meant it was also quite exposed. The rain didn’t last more than a few miles and by the time we were walking downhill into Stewarton it had started to clear up.<\/p>\n
From Isaiah 40 In a few weeks these orchids will have finished flowering. They will fade until next spring and summer. It was wonderful to find them here: an unexpected treat alongside all the buttercups, thistles, grasses and more, with Ringlets visiting at the moment.<\/p>\n May God grant us all a quiet night and a peaceful end. <\/b><\/p>\n JAL 30.06.2019 Day 77 of the End to End began grey and windy at Riccarton Parish church. A massive place on Judgement Mount, it was built in 1823. Heaven knows how many people it was built for of who goes there now. Like most of the Parish churches I’ve passed in Scotland, it was locked. I walked … Continue reading “All things bright and beautiful”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nWe found a friendly cafe in the town centre and had an excellent toasted sandwich lunch with yummy cakes. We caught the train back to Kilmarnock as planned.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nLater I took another turn round our little wildlife oasis exploring the meadow around the feet of the electricity pylon. A parent magpie was feeding a juvenile on a post, which I assumed had not long fledged.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThere were plenty of Ringlet Butterflies in the grasses, and some large thistles. But best of all the dozens of orchids for this evenings edition of Kilmarnock Orchid Watch.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nThe grass withers and the flowers fade, but God’s word lasts forever.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDay 77 of the End to End, Kilmarnock to Stewarton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"