15th
August 2016 (Monday)
.... 09.30 This is the best morning we’ve
had so far this summer; it was sunny,
and warm hot at 07.00. I went
down to the
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| Elie Bay this morning |
beach wearing a light jacket, and that had to come off and be tied around
my waist; it is totally gorgeous here
this morning ... and it looks like being so all day. The beach was quiet, it was 06.45, with only
a few birds, and myself, enjoying the ambiance.... however by the time I left
the beach to go up Chapel Green etc on the bike... (where I had ‘morning coffee’ sitting on the ‘Boss’s Seat’)....
the village was waking up. This is a
day for doing things!
21.30 This must have been one of the best days we’ve
had for a long time .... even though the wind went to the Southeast it didn’t drop
the temperature by much. It was that
warm in the late afternoon that I now know where the elusive ant colony is: it got into a state of excitement and went into
mating mode. There were Queens, and
males, (with wings) all over the garden wall at the front gate: that is where the colony is .... inside the stone
wall! (This is unfortunate for them
because I’m going to be cementing the wall in the autumn). However they didn’t actually ‘take orf’ so I’m
guessing the temperature just wasn’t quite right. All was quiet the last time I looked (about
20.00).... but I’ll be keeping an ‘eye’ on them tomorrow afternoon. There are ant’s nests all over the place,
so there may be others in ‘mating flight’ mode if the
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| Balcarres Crag |
temperature is right
tomorrow.
This
afternoon I biked up to Balcarres and had a potter around the crag and Family
Chapel area. The Estate is still looking
‘green’ though you can see that the leaves are beginning to change; they’re looking old. It won’t be long before the autumn colours
make an appearance. On the way
through Colinsburgh I met, at different places, Jim, William’T’, and Drew and
had a natter with all three. Information
gleaned, re things happening in Colinsburgh, was .... nothing was happening in
Colinsburgh! It would appear that the ants nest getting
excited was the most moving thrilling event in the EKC Parish today!
We
had a bonnie sunset so today has been one of those, too few and far between,
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| Queen ant with boys |
perfect summer days. Tomorrow is forecast
to be much the same, though it might be mistier in the morning.
Photographs
: Top – Elie Bay this morning, Middle – the Victorian folly atop Balcarres
crag, and Bottom – a Queen ant... the smaller ones with wings are the ‘boys’.
