Message from Santa for Esmé

Message for Esmé!

Snow on the Tay at Kingoodie and Carnoustie

Snow! It really feels like Christmas and I am off on holiday as well double exclamation marks!! My drive back from Inchture where I work for part of the week passes several areas where the reed beds alongside the Tay are accessible. The frosty conditions make it easier to make your way amongst them. Sitting there still, watching, listening, alongside bales of cut reeds, while the birds and fish go about their business as they have since the ice retreated ten thousand years ago, brings with it a sense of the world as it should be. However, the light has remained a fairly constant grey every time I have had an opportunity to sit there. Hopefully early one morning or one evening the sky will light up and reflect from the river.

Far removed from the reed beds, but at the mouth of the same river, the Carnoustie Golf Hotel and our very own gaudy christmas lights

Sunset at Grange of Barry

A gorgeous sunset yesterday. Both Gwen and I exclaimed "wow!" independently after climbing the bank of the large irrigation pond above the lade. Up until then we had only been able to see the pink tinged tree tops that only gave a slight clue to the drama unfolding between the thin clouds and the fading sun. The newly trimmed hedges add a very strange rectangular silhouette between the tangled oak trees.

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Monifieth one morning last week. It really was a struggle to get back in the car and go to work.

Lunan Bay and Red Castle

Esmé and Dad had a lovely time exploring Red Castle and Lunan Bay on Sunday. Poor Mum was stuck at home doing reading for university :( Esmé especially missed her.

Carnoustie fireworks

Torch light, fireworks and a bonfire.

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