It's a dark & dreary morning

6 more squares - a tiny collagraph print & pen, a collection of bits & pieces stitched down, a creamy brooch to match the cuff, bits from the box, achillia seedhead sketch (they've almost all gone now) & some papers with rusty wire found behind the draining board during a bit of a clean up, yuck, how long has that been there, what, throw it away?!

Everyone has been talking about Spring finally arriving & altho my daffs are finally up, the little dwarf ones (no pic yet, sorry) its been a wet & miserable, dark week, with a strong breeze. We're paying now (as they say up here) for a glorious winter (altho some said it was far too cold).

It's amazing how the weather affects people so strongly, it's just there surely & you put on what you need, accordingly. Altho, having said that, I like weather that does something. Give me a howling wind, with me safe & warm inside, & I am exhilarated, the sound of rain on the rooftop is a crecendo (sp!) for my ears. Wonderful, makes you feel alive. Talk about the weather, me?

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Went for a trip out to an unexplored place on the mainland, all the way round to behind the loch we can see from here. Drove down a 22m road back in towards Skye, then you have to walk a further 7 miles to get to the start Loch Hourn (which is what we can see from here). Are you with me so far? On the way we saw this dramatic cloud formation.

When we got to this much unused single track road, I fell in love with the passing place signs, they're usually legible but I prefer them rusty like this.

The road is obviously so unused the deer don't seem to mind you at all. I've been coming here since 84, lived here for ten years & we've never seen the like!

I know we could have been using a telephoto lens but we weren't; there were 9 deer surrounding us - amazing

I was pretty tired so D went off driftwood hunting in the dam & came back with a beautiful piece & a pic of a root which wasn't moving anywhere.

A great day.