Back and Forth Across the Pond

It continued to snow for about thirty minutes after I made the video from the previous post. We'd get a few minutes of flurries every now and again, but it wasn't developing into the big arctic blast heralded by the news. Then, as the sun was setting around 3:45 or so, snow began falling thick and fast. This is a shot taken through my kitchen window. I needed the streetlight to illuminate the large and furiously falling snowflakes. The snowfall lasted for a good thirty to forty minutes and left a blanket of snow on the ground. It snowed again when Steve got home from work. He suggested we take a walk after dinner. These are the photos I snapped of the aftermath.  This is the section of our fence that was damaged by the gale force winds. Looking up our driveway toward the road. Our bird feeders in the front garden. Our back patio. Look at the accumulation! Our patio was nicely covered. We have all these branches sticking o...

Steve took a couple of days off when I returned from my three weeks in The States. We used the extra time to take an overnight trip to the Isle of Skye. Skye has been on my bucket list for awhile, so I was quite excited to finally get there. The weather forecast called for rain for the entire trip. Luckily, the forecast was wrong (as it so often is around here) and the rain never interfered with our activities. Our route took us by Loch Carron. You can't tell from these photos, but Loch Carron is a sea loch. I want to say it dumps into the Atlantic Ocean, but I am unsure if the span of water between the Isle of Skye and the Scottish mainland has its own name. This is the tiny village of North Strome on the other side of the loch. I think the sepia filter gives this view of Loch Carron an interesting quality. A zoomed-in view of North Strome on the other side of the loch. The large building in the foreground is Strome Castle (I think). I didn't know it...