30th
October 2016 (Sunday)
.... 09.30 Wellll .... I took
advantage of the ‘extra hour’ in bed, hoping that I’d waken up to a bright and
sunny day.... but nope:
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| KIlconquhar Church - lit by the setting sun. |
we have a drab
looking, ‘grey and damp’ start to the day, however it does looks like it could
brighten up by midday. Right now we
have light rain.... but it is warm .... for the time of year. The amazing thing is that I remembered to
change the clocks last night; usually I,
inadvertently, work on ‘Ivy Cottage’ time for a couple of days. In “Ivy Cottage” time days don’t have
names... they are just, daylight... and not daylight!
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| Balcarres Estate - Colinsburgh. |
21.00 It has been a ‘nae bad’ day as far as the
weather went; the early light rain
meandered orf to annoy someone else, and we ended up with ‘sunny spells’. Jimmy and I went along to Leven in the
morning for a cuppa in Sainsbury’s but it was ‘mobbed’; I’ve never seen Sainsbury’s cafe as busy as
it was today. We decided to skip the
cuppa, and have one back at Ivy; we’d bought ‘goodies’ in Lidl’s in the event
of Sainsbury’s being busy. That could
also be said of the traffic, we met heading West when we were travelling back
to ‘The Royal Burgh’..... it was mostly ‘nose to tail’ all the way. I guess they were holiday makers on their
way home after a couple of weeks... either in, or in close proximity to ... “The
Centre of the Universe”.
In
the late afternoon I set off, in the car, to go up to Balcarres to have a look
at the trees in their autumn colours.
On the way I stopped at Kinneuchar Kirk to see if Skipper’s stone is in
place, and have a daunder out to the Quiet Garden to have a look at the
loch; Bob arrived so we chatted, and
enjoyed the peaceful setting. I’d forgotten that we’d changed the clocks
last night so
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| Balcarres Estate. |
it was in fact later than I thought by the time I got up to Balcarres,
and the sun was setting fast. Nevertheless I enjoyed a walk around the ‘Chapel’
before the light faded too much. There
was a bonnie sunset on the way home, but I didn’t have the Canon (camera) with
me; I can operate it in difficult light
conditions.
It
looks like we’re going to have bonnier weather tomorrow, for most of the
daylight hours anyway. Rain is
forecast for late afternoon and the evening.... so ‘out and about’ early for
this boy I’m thinkin’.
Photographs
: Top – setting sun light on the Kirk at Kinneuchar, Middle and Bottom – Balcarres
Estate.
