Sunset
after the winter...
…that never really was
(it was just a long. long, wet, windy, frequently stormy and at least once hurricaned, autumn.
Then in late March came a balmy spring, which sent us scampering from our Glasgow hangout to the beach at Ayr
This was the hottest March day in recoded Scottish meteo-history. Some rare sights for Ayrshire in spring:
But within a week winter finally arrived. Snow fell overnight across Scotland on April 2nd, though here in the Great Glen we got off very light. Just a couple of inches in our garden and a picturesque powdering of the hilltops. By the end of Wednesday the 4th, we had a beautiful and summery gloaming light on the loch, below the snow-capped peaks:
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back to the beach at sunset
22/12/10 19:52 Categorised as: Highland Light | Scotland
it’s the eve of our 10th Wedding Anniversary
and here we are back at our old honeymoon haunts - and chasing again the sunset down to the beach at Traigh, by Arisaig. This time, though, there’s snow on the beach, right down to the high tide mark
just another winter sunset
22/11/10 17:46 Categorised as: Scotland | Highland Light
in Fort William. Just one hour ago.
Loses a bit in the jpeg compression, but still - hopefully gives some idea why we choose to be here...
spring, and the Hills are Burning
13/04/10 20:55 Categorised as: Highland Light
long evenings, now. This shot taken tonight from our driveway
about 8.45pm, with a fine sunset glow in the wispy cirrus, and fires still alight where the annual heather-burn is underway.
You can see flames near the top of Meall an’t Slamain, and more smoke rising out of the glen to the left.
Not a bad view, we have here!!