We were out in the wind and rain yesterday morning for our daily constitutional but it wasn't very pleasant, there was little to see, and taking pictures was nigh-on impossible. I'm a bit past the need to hunt the spectacular, far preferring to observe....
....the less spectacular aftermath of events like storms. Even then, while it's sad to see a good tree down, I'm more interested in....
....the less immediately obvious, like the way the leaves on trees and shrubs which were exposed to Babet's easterly, salt-laden blast have been stripped off or burnt. This was most obvious in....
....this old apple tree in Dunrobin Castle's grounds where one side of the tree is severely wind-scorched and has dropped almost all its apples. Even hardy. bushes like the sea buckthorn have suffered.
Yesterday's storm waves have been replaced by much calmer conditions under bright blue skies and a warm sun, enabling....
....the beach residents to return and forage along a shore which has lost almost all its sand - which isn't good news for waders like the oystercatchers.
However, in places the waves still built into a good-sized surf, attracting two surfers to the area just north of the mouth of the Golspie Burn.
We were out in the wind and rain yesterday morning for our daily constitutional but it wasn't very pleasant, there was little to see, and taking pictures was nigh-on impossible. I'm a bit past the need to hunt the spectacular, far preferring to observe....
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