Autumnal Equinox ...
22nd
September 2017 (Friday)
.... 09.00 The Autumnal Equinox.... and ‘official’ start of autumn.
We
had a really bright start to the morning but ... there’s always a ‘but’ ....
the sky is
beginning to cloud over, and we could have rain by midday by the
look of the North-western sky. I
intended making up flasks for Jimmy and I to have our morning cuppa up at
Chapel Green, but it’s too cold for that.
We’ll have our cuppa in Ivy.
20.30 By the time I walked up to Chapel Green this morning, the temperature had risen and it was pleasantly warm; we could have had our cuppa sitting on the Boss’s seat after all. On the way up the High Street, I stopped to have a chat with David (Allan) the painter; he was saying how this has been a really bad summer for getting outside painting done.... no decent, long spells of dry, sunny weather. Of course I had to tell him that it has been the same for retired persons .... we’ve had the stress of having to
change our ‘plans’ far too often this summer. Do we use sun cream or is it raining? Do we walk up to the Coffee Morning or take
the car? Oh yes .... we senior
citizens had a lot of stress this summer.
It’s easy growing old .... the hard bit is adapting to it!
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| Elie from Chapel Green. |
20.30 By the time I walked up to Chapel Green this morning, the temperature had risen and it was pleasantly warm; we could have had our cuppa sitting on the Boss’s seat after all. On the way up the High Street, I stopped to have a chat with David (Allan) the painter; he was saying how this has been a really bad summer for getting outside painting done.... no decent, long spells of dry, sunny weather. Of course I had to tell him that it has been the same for retired persons .... we’ve had the stress of having to
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| Large 'thing' working on the golf course. |
As
per forecast the weather deteriorated after midday, clouding over then light rain
... and, the wind is from the East.
That said .... it isn’t cold. I went for walk down on the beach this evening; hoping for another braw ‘sunset time’
photo... but the sky was heavily overcast in the West,... however there were
clear spaces towards the South, so, although tonight’s
photos weren’t of the ‘Royal
Purple’ kind.... they are, as always with Elie and Earlsferry photos, ....
bonnie. The weather forecast for tomorrow
is better; dry, brighter than today,
and warm, .... even though the wind is from the East.
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| Evening time. |
Once again I
don’t have a ‘plan’ for tomorrow .... I might get up to catch the sunrise
(07.00) .... if the sky looks like being interesting.... i.e. broken clouds. I’m
usually ‘up’ at 06.00 anyway; for sunrise
you need to be down on the beach at least 20 minutes before the event.
Photographs
: Top – Elie from Chapel Green, Middle – much work happening on the golf
course, and Bottom – sunset time.
