8th
October 2016 (Saturday)
... 09.30 It was cold when I wrapped
up and went out before 07.00; by the
time I was walking along the beach on the walk
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| Earlsferry |
home (08.20), and meeting
people, I felt ever so slightly ‘overdressed’,
on what was by now a lovely warm morning.... wearing gloves, warm
jacket, and a scarf. Yep I was
sweltering; but the easiest way to carry
all the ‘clothes stuff’, was wearing it.... and Ivy Cottage wasn’t that far
away. It is a lovely day now; I’m thinking that I might go out again after
breakfast.
22.00 I
did eventually go out on the bike.... up to Elie Estate boathouse, from where I
watched Pinkfoot geese landing on; then
taking off from ... Kilconquhar Loch. One
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| Elie Harbour and beach |
skein settled for about 10 minutes,
another skein came in but only settled for a couple of minutes: they were ‘flighty’ for some reason. This was in mid afternoon so they weren’t
settling down for the night: they might
have decided that they needed another ‘snack’ before bedtime! There were some bonnie clouds beginning to
build at this time; making the scene in
front of me look, and sound, ‘magical’.
The
clouds kept building and we had a real beauty over Elie just before sunset...
the setting sun coloured the face of the cloud a pale ochre .... it looked
menacing. The menacing look was offset
by a rainbow at the southern end of the cloud. Rainbows mean ‘wet stuff’ and sure enough
spits and spots of rain did begin to fall, but only a few spits and spots ...
but enough to have me heading back to
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| Shower cloud over Elie Bay. |
Ivy.
The ‘rain’ never came to anything so I got the camera out again and
wandered up to the ‘Pony Field’ to watch the sunset.
Jimmy
and I will be on a mission tomorrow morning:
restocking his freezer, which had
been inadvertently switched ‘off’. We’ll
take the ‘stuff’ that was in the freezer along to the recycling place at
Pittenweem, then do a ‘freezer’ shopping, in Leven. Tomorrow morning has the ‘makings’ of being
a busy one. Luckily I get up early to
have a morning walk before breakfast, so I’ll get some exercise.
Photographs
: Top – The West end of Ferry beach bathed in early morning sunlight, Middle – Elie
Harbour, and beach this, bonnie, afternoon, and Bottom – shower cloud over Elie
Bay.
