Hundreds of north-east mothers braved a blast of wintry weather to celebrate their special day in Mintlaw.
Aden Country Park had been scheduled to host a massive celebration for Mother’s Day yesterday, but had to cancel many of its planned activities due to snow showers and rain.
However, mothers across Aberdeenshire were still invited to the park to take in family-friendly events at its annual country fair.
A selection of homemade goods, including jams and furniture, and a selection of items to feast upon from locally-sourced butchers, were on the menu and the hot food predictably proved popular with visitors.
Local charity, the Owl and Pussycat Centre, was also at the park with a range of birds for youngsters to meet and greet.
The venue’s Mother’s Day celebration marked the first of two major attractions which the Green Flag-recognised estate will stage this month.
On March 20, the attraction will offer green-fingered gardeners the opportunity to talk shop during its first Seedy Sunday event of the year.
The scheme has already secured £5,000 of cash from the Community Food Fund to organise horticultural and food demonstrations.
Aden’s development worker, Neil Shirran, said: “We’re all getting very excited about the new Seedy Sunday.
“It should prove to be a really informative, fun, and feel good event.”
Mr Shirran added that, with its plant nursery, Aden Country Park was the “perfect venue” for “like-minded people to come together to swap their surplus plants and seeds ahead of the 2016 growing season”.
To help encourage seed collecting, thousands of empty seed packets are now available, free of charge, to any would-be gardener who want to either start collecting plant seeds, or who has already collected surplus seeds they are willing to swap at the event.