Overcast with light Easterly breeze ....
10th
March 2017 (Friday) .... Mmmmm .... it’s a morning for eating Fudge
Doughnuts: we have a grey, but dry, morning; unfortunately what little wind
there is, is
coming from the East just now, off the North Sea, not my favourite wind
direction..... having said that, with
the wind being light there may be some ‘reflection’ photographs around when the
tide’s in.... a silver lining in the greyness.
Right now the tide is coming ‘in’
with high tide being at 12.40.
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| Elie Harbour. |
20.00 Mmmmmm .... I managed a couple of walks
... three in fact,.... even on grey days we’re surrounded with ‘bonniness’. There wasn’t much in the way of wind, just
enough to stop the whole bay looking like a ‘mirrah’. The first walk took me up to Lundar Law,
whereon I perched, waiting for Jimmy to turn up at “Alice’s seat”. After 10 minutes sitting atop the ‘Law’, occasionally
taking photos of a couple of golfers, my butt was beginning to feel cold, so I
wandered back to
Ivy and got the kettle on;
Jimmy arrived for a cuppa about 11.00. Jimmy
decided that he’d go along to the Windmill in the afternoon .... I thought I
might go up to Balcarres.
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| Elie Harbour. |
The
sky did begin to look a bit brighter after lunch so I drove up to Balcarres as
planned.... I wanted to see if ‘Sarah van Veen’ (Magnolia tree) was in
bloom. When I got to Balcarres it was
obvious that it will be another couple of weeks before the ‘Sarah van Veen’ blossom erupts...but ‘SvV’ will
look great when ‘she’ does flower, because ‘she’ is covered in buds. The estate was quiet, though I did meet Lady
Crawford on the Woodland Walk; we were
both enjoying the quietness, and the signs of Spring all around us.
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| Balcarres Estate Rhododendron flower - I think. |
On
the way home I went down to Elie Harbour and had a walk on the beach; it wisnae very busy down there... and it
wisnae very warm either. The latter
probably explains the first! Up on
Balcarres the breeze wasn’t noticeable in the shelter of the trees. I was glad to get back to Ivy to put the
kettle ‘on’.
The
weather forecast for tomorrow isnae “sunny and warm”; it’s going to be more or less the same as
what we had today. I’s a good job
there’s a Coffee Morning on the Elie Kirk Hall to brighten up our day.
Photographs
: Top and Middle – Elie Harbour, and Bottom – Balcarres flower ... one of many.
