Friday, February 20, 2015
A black guillemot was out in Ullapool harbour on a choppy, silvered sea in a cold wind with the fitful afternoon sun behind it. Actually there were three, but two moved off beyond the quayside wall.
The weather today was infuriating, though no different from the last few days. One moment the sky is forbiddingly dark and the raining is teeming down, so you decide to stay in and do something useful like hoover the house. The next moment the clouds have rolled away and the sky is blue; so you rush around to get ready to go out and by the time you open the front door the sleet is pelting down again.
A shrub in the garden is simultaneously leafing and flowering; I think it could be a King Edward VII flowering currant (Ribes sanguine) - although by bending down so that neighbours opposite wouldn't think I was snapping their houses, I've managed to make it look like something from Day of the Triffids.
But at least it illustrates my point; the sun might be out now, but one mass of rain had just passed over to the east - and there was a lot more to come.
// posted by Christine @ 12:15 PM 
