Windy weather!

Esmé enjoyed the wind with a little encouragement. If you look above the trees on the golf course picture you can see an iridescent cloud.

Last Sunday of the holidays :(

I am back at work tomorrow Gwen and Esmé don't go back until Wednesday. I will miss them. It is hard when you get used to life with each other all day and then it comes to an abrupt end.

Great weather though for the last day, blue sky, crisp snow and you could see large breakers out in the estuary. The sea actually looked fairly calm but it was impacting against the coastal defences with a sudden ferocity. It caught me off guard a couple of times and but for a quick jump I would have been soaked.

The seed heads I noticed last week and thought they looked interesting. The sun was in just the right place to provide a silhouette of there structure.

Christmas Holidays day1

Esmé is off and the snow is still here! In all the excitement the pictures are in the wrong order.

After weeks of enforced captivity the suns low position in the sky was all the more prominent. Despite it being the first day after the solstice there was no appreciable rise in the suns arc as it travelled from east to west. It gave only watery light during the morning at Barry Mill and the pictures there look very grey, while the brighter afternoon was filled with a drawn out and relaxed lunch at Banana Splits café. After a brief visit to the shops. Esmé and I were left to go adventure.

Esmé thought that the snow on the beach was fantastic and was desperate to see the sea frozen over. No luck yet. Craigmill Den is blocked off at both ends for no apparent reason. What's more climbing over the barriers was very hazardous! I hope Angus Council aren't planning to do anything daft as at the Fairy Steps where there is still no bridge several years on. Again climbing over the barrier and crossing on the remaining girders raises the heart beat a little.

Despite being blocked off, or maybe because of it Craigmill Den was serene just after the sun had dipped below the horizon. Esmé did admit to being a little afraid as the dark crept in and she gripped tightly to my hand.

Tomorrow if the weather remains good will hopefully bring an opportunity to sledge. I would like to be in Glen Isla or Prosen early to take some pictures, however experience tells me getting all three of us out early is unlikely. I need to get some pictures for Peel Farm. A couple of snowy ones would be nice. Hopefully the light will be better than today. Some thin cirrus clouds please.

Storms

Carnoustie at night

Some pictures taken on Carnourtie beach on the 24th from sunset onwards.