17th
December 2016 (Saturday)
.... 10.00 Mmmmm.... there’s a brisk
Northwest breeze this morning so it’s colder ‘out’, but it’s a bonnie morning
for getting
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| The sun rising, over the Lammermuirs, and behind the Bass Rock. |
things done. I have an
Aran jersey out on the line, which should dry a bit over the day: I’ll keep have to keep a ‘weather eye’ on
the clouds that have suddenly appeared from ‘nowhere’. The ‘plan’, for this morning, is to
distribute the last of the Christmas cards;
I’ll begin by having a cuppa.
21.30 All the Christmas cards, apart from the
Kinneuchar ones, have been ‘posted’: it
was my intention to do the Kinneuchar ones when I was up there tonight taking
photos, but it’s too windy and cold to do that, so that photo mission has been
postponed until tomorrow night. The cold
isn’t too much of a problem, but the ‘decorations’ would be moving around in
the wind; not good when you are working
the camera at slow speeds.
There
has been a cold, raw air around all day.... like you have before it rains. I went along to Elie in the afternoon, and,
as is my usual practice, I went down to the
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| Elie Bay. |
harbour; that’s the place to feel the cold air.... it
was perishing. I did a ‘Jimmy’ and
looked at the villages from the car. On
the way down to the harbour I noticed that the granary was nicely placed
against a pale, and interesting, background sky (everything in my world comes
with a frame round it) .... I stopped and took a few ‘shots’ from the Toft, of
the Granary, and looking across Elie Bay to the ‘Royal Burgh’. Today’s, ‘Middle’ and ‘Bottom’ pictures.
I
meant to bake some ‘Melting Moments’ this afternoon, but got diverted; I think I’ll do that, the baking, first
thing in the morning. The weather
forecast is not bad for the
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| The Terrace, Elie. |
next 24 hours;
a good chance of rain overnight, clearing away tomorrow morning to be
followed by ‘bright spells, and it is not going to feel as cold as it was
today. My next move is to make my
bedtime chocolate drink, then get orf to bed.
This seems to have been a long day, although it is in fact coming up to
the shortest one.... that’s daylight hours of course; my day starts well before daylight.... I keep
summertime hours. At this time of year,
some of them (hours) are dark-ish. It can be awe-inspiring
watching the dawn break; and, at the end
of ‘the day’, watch the gloamin’ come
in.
Photographs
: Top – the sun rising behind the Bass Rock, and over the Lammermuirs, Middle –Elie
Bay and the Granary, and Bottom – looking
across the bay towards Earlsferry.
