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the cloud cometh

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

With all that gear stuff out of the way, I’m now free to stare at the clouds again and what superb Cirrus we had yesterday afternoon:

advancing spring meets retreating winter

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

As the honeysuckle awakens, new snow dusts the summit slopes of Ladhair Bheinn. I love the snowy depths of winter but the birdsong and green of spring is nice too.

a tropical morning

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

No sign of the torrential rain forecast but the wind is picking up and it’s warm as the tropics. Only last week there was snow on the hills but this morning is very mild. Superb sunset over Beinn Sgritheall and Ladhair Bheinn:

the first snows have gone

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It was a horrendous morning today so it was festering in bed and reading most of the day, until the weather cleared up completely to reveal a bright white line snaking down the east face of Beinn Sgritheall. A massive torrent of water was being unleashed by the melting snows that came yesterday and left today. Cailleach a’Gheamhraidh (the old woman of winter) was just trying out her voice. She’ll be back. In the meantime, it was a calm and peaceful end to a very stormy day.

rise and sunshine

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

What a morning! Got up to see the sun rising over Beinn Sgritheall with Ladhair Bheinn waiting patiently for its share of the warmth. The coldest morning yet, after the summer. Welcome autumn!

red skye in the morning

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Forecast isn’t too good. Clear morning with low cloud and rain moving in for the afternoon. Superb morning though. Very still. Seagulls clamouring down by the shore. I feel a walk coming on.

a warm skye evening

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a fantastic late summer day on Skye today and I managed to snap some pics, perhaps the last of the warm weather. It’s been a superb summer on Skye, in contrast to the record breaking wet weather throughout the rest of the UK. It was so dry at one point, three months without rain, that we almost ran out of water and a lot of the neebs actually did, as we’re all on springs. This morning on the way to work I snapped crepuscular rays slanting down in front of Sgurr na Coinnich across the Sleat moorland.