May 2011
from afternoon darkness, to brightness at midnight
some spring, this is
This was yesterday, about twenty past two in the afternoon, in Glencoe. Waterfalls blown upwards, or dashed aside on the rocks, beneath a dark, wintery sky, and with winds close to hurricane force
Then tonight, about ten days overdue, our first bright midnight sky of 2011
Note the Pole Star shining.
More rain forecast for tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
Ho-hum...
nifty & thrifty
03/05/11 22:40 Categorised as: Spring 2011
choral interlude
01/05/11 10:41 Categorised as: Spring 2011
annual trip to Ardrishaig on the shores of Loch Fyne
where the Crinan Canal links the Firth of Clyde to the Atlantic
and where each year since we’ve been in these parts the sun has shone on the Kilmallie Singers’s away fixture with the Corran Singers
This year was Handel’s Messiah.
It was a last time for Sheila MacCallum who says she will not be conducting the two choirs again.
It was also the first time Claire, our Alexander teacher - extreme left in this picture - had joined the choirs to blast out the trumpet parts.