Bonnie sunrise .....
26th
September 2016 (Monday)
... 09.00 This is the kind of morning
for working in the garden .... its ‘sunny, bright and breezy’... but, after I
have nipped a
few more twigs orf the Buddleia bush (hereafter ‘BB’) I’ll find
something tricky to do; like going out on the bike.
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| Sunrise over Elie |
Sunrise
time was a good time to be down on the beach .... it was beautiful. One lady, out walking her five month
Spaniel ( actually she .. the pup, not the lady..... looked like it had been ‘knitted’),
had her coffee in one of those ‘keep
warm’ mugs.... now that is thinking. Mind
you I’d need three arms to be able to do that. I’m
hungry now .... need to eat something, I haven’t had breakfast yet: no wonder poor, underfed, “Puku” is
grumbling! “Puku” underfed? ... ..... I
don’t think so.
bank... half an hour before
sunset time. This meant that the Ferry
was ‘in the gloaming’ rather than lit up by the setting sun, which is what I wanted
to capture: however it was all very
atmospheric, and I arrived back at Ivy ....‘happy’.
21.30 There are a few butterflies around still
... I’ve seen a Red Admiral, a Peacock,
and a Painted Lady.... feeding on
the last three flower heads on the ‘BB’ today;
I was
pleasantly surprised by this as it was quite cold in the wind....
but obviously warm enough, to get butterflies on the wing, when the sun did
break through. This also means that
the ‘BB’ was pleasantly surprised too;
it is safe for another few days.
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| ... a few minutes before sunrise |
I’ve
been feeling ‘lazy’ today; but I did
bike up to Chapel Green to have a wee explore among the rocks down by the
Rumblin’ Gut, Earlsferry’s old rubbish tip.
The horse drawn cart, a ‘ferm cairt’ adapted for the job, was backed up
to a sleeper (the metal pins that held the sleeper in place are still there),
the body of the ‘cairt’ was released and the rubbish dropped straight into the ‘gut’....
and vanished with the tide. Jimmy and
Sydney would occasionally have a look for ‘stuff’, at low tide, and were
sometimes lucky enough to find ‘money’.
This
evening I went North, up to the ‘Pony Field’, to watch the sunset, but all I
saw
was the sun dropping behind a big, dark grey, cloud
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| Earlsferry |
I’m
contemplating a ‘sleep in’ tomorrow morning;
the weather forecast isn’t “iggzactly” of the ‘get up for the sunrise’
kind ..... the weather is forecast to be dull, and perhaps even wet, early
morning, then clearing up to ‘bright and sunny’ through the morning. I’ll have a look at 06.00 to see what the
chances are of seeing the sun rise.
Photographs
: Top – a few minutes before sunrise ... the wee spaniel pup can just be seen
on the wet sand, with her owner on the left of the picture with her coffee
mug... that’s cool, Middle – sunrise this morning, and Bottom – Earlsferry in
the ‘gloamin’.
