In contrast to most of the rest of Britain, which has been enjoying sunshine and soaring temperatures, we've suffered over the last few days from chill winds and monotonous grey skies. Today, however, opened with a dead calm, though the overcast persisted until mid-morning when the sun, finally, made an appearance.
Golspie boasts one small fishing boat which has been up on the hardstanding all winter but today it was back in the water and tied up against the harbour arm while men were working on it.
Geese continue to fly over, several skeins every day, though some of them seem uncertain as to which direction they are meant to be heading. These were two skeins were both heading north but they became confused when the leading skein suddenly turned west.
Everything here is bound to be behind the rest of the country as we're coming out of a winter of long, dark nights but, as of 21st March, our days are rapidly becoming longer than those to the south. Soon it won't be getting dark at all over the nights, and....
....anything growing, like this vetch, will be benefiting from days of 24-hour sunlight.
It's heartening to see the hedgerows bursting into flower, and we've seen the first bumblebees out exploiting the pollen, but if the appearance of one insect heralds the true arrival of spring surely it is....
....the first butterfly. We saw four of these tortoiseshells in the couple of hours of our walk this morning, and the local human population must have thought me mad as I chased them up and down the road for a photograph.
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