When we're out walking it isn't unusual to find bits of glass or pottery on the hills or, more particularly, in burns.  I've often wondered why it seemed to be so common to throw old pots and crockery into the burn or the loch - if anyone knows why this happened I'd be interested to hear the reason.  This past week Stevan found this glass jar up the hill behind our house:



The lettering on the bottle says CHESEBROUGH MANFC.CO CD NEW-YORK.  Initially I didn't think it could be particularly old, but it is older than I thought.  Robert Chesebrough was the inventor of  Petroleum Jelly, also known as Vaseline.  He created the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company in 1875 which became Chesebrough Ponds in the 1950's.  This bottle is probably from the early 1900's based on what I've managed to find online about similar bottles - I'd no idea there was so much to be found about glass bottles online nor that there were so many collectors of bottles like this.  There were numerous ones similar to this available on ebay.  This one is destined to hold pencils and pens on my desk.

We've had an absolutely glorious week weather wise this week.  Huge blue skies, lots of sunshine, and as the week has progressed the moon has got larger and larger and larger until this afternoon it was very nearly full:



That is Stevan's picture, but not to be beaten I gingerly made my way up our ladder leaning against the wind turbine to try and capture the same scene with my camera.



I'm really not sure how Stevan's nerves allow him to go up and down this ladder, sometimes carrying something in both his hands leaving no hands free to cling to the ladder!