Lovely morning ....
3rd
October 2021 (Sunday) 08.00 ..... beautiful morning here
Turbine No1 from turbine No 2.
(Auchnagatt); a blue sky with a few clouds towards the north
.... and only a light breeze, though the wind if forecast to freshen by midday
and there’s a chance of showers in the afternoon. At the moment there’s only ‘Sooper Cat MK II’
and me on the move.... and he keeps reappearing from cat missions. I think there’s only one cat.... though it
looks like there could be three or four.
The kettle will be boiling so I’ll have a cuppa and breakfast.
09.30 The ‘plan’ is to bike up to the wind
turbines this morning, then go to Pitmedden gardens in the afternoon. I’m looking forward to being close up with turbines
and with flowers .... engineering and nature: a different mix of photographs to play with this evening.
Where the top and bottom bits join.
12.30 We got the bikes out after breakfast and
went up to the Skilmafilly Hill wind turbines.
As the crow flies the turbines are about a mile away... probably two by
road: there was a frisky wind at the top
of the hill. We stopped at turbine No 1
to have a look around then went to No 2 where the viewpoint is, and close up photos. The blades make a noise , but it’s not very
noticeable .... even standing underneath them.
It was windy, and cold, at the top of the hill so we didn’t hang around
too long; but it would be well worth
going up there on a quieter day to take a lot more photographs from the
viewpoint.... and from the road we travelled.
Jackie and I did the full circle, Iain went back the way we came to put
the kettle on.
21.30 After lunch we went (in the car) to
Pitmedden Garden: the original garden
was
Pitmedden Garden.
created for Sir Alexander Seton in the 1650’s, but became a kitchen garden
in the 1850’s and was ploughed up, to grow vegetables, at the beginning of WWII.
It was handed to the National Trust in 1952, and they decided to recreate
an ornamental garden which is what we have now;
and it looks, and feels much older than it actually is. We spent a relaxing hour and a half
bumbling round.... and I am a tired boy tonight. Another cuppa and it will be bedtime.
