Spring is desperately slow in arriving. Last night we had snow, and then a frost, so little wonder that, while the small birds continue to struggle manfully with the conditions, the wildflowers are refusing to appear. So far, all the wildflowers have been yellow. The list is short: gorse, which has been flowering on and off all winter, a few lesser celandines, and....
....this, the first dandelion of the year, its relatively early appearance due, perhaps, to a south-facing aspect and its location in the protection of a ditch.
To add to their trials, the wildflowers are now threatened by Storm Dave, due to arrive overnight but forecast to hit the west coast much harder than us. If we don't have Dave's gales and rain, instead we are forecast to have a cold easterly with more wintery showers, though I suspect we might have rather stronger winds than forecast as....
....this ship, the Madeira-flagged
Aramis, has anchored in shelter on the far side of the firth. She's on passage to Wick carrying what look like the blades of wind turbines.
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