Another break in the weather today. Lots of ducks on the sea off Langbank. 50 to 100 Common Gulls on the grass near Ferguson's shipyard. The little damp hollow just east of the M8/A8 merge has been dusted with blue for the past few weeks - Devil's Bit Scabious would be my guess, as it is renowned for the "blue hue" it can create in late summer. Also lots of stately Greater Reedmace there. Web news suggests winter geese are starting to arrive (sightings from both Islay and the Lothians in the past 2 days), a sure sign that colder weather is on the way......
Friday, September 17, 2004
"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls".
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