A super quick and content free blog post this morning. Angus is off to Edinburgh on an early train. It is a classic red sky in the morning day.
I'm taking down two water colours to be framed by a man who does work for the National Gallery. The possibility of drizzle makes me wrap the paintings carefully in a double layer of grey plastic garbage bags. It ain't a stylish solution but it will suffice. I'll also take a rain coat as insurance against Edinburghs temperamental climate for me. You can be sure the very second I step out of the station it will pour.
Yesterday, the farmer was out moving the bales of straw from the wet and windy fields in front of the house into the warmth of the cow barn. He now only has the bales out by the heron pond to deal with. The new combine harvester has been playing up again. One of the farm hands has misjudged its width and driven it into a field wall. The stone field wall suffered as did the combines drive shaft. It decided to stop at the side of the potato field where it remains expensively stranded. The farmer is not exuding an aura of joy and happiness this morning. We pass him with a brief wave of recognition.
Angus has picked up an 'intellectual biography' from the bookstore to read on the train. An intellectual biography sounds very pretentious but it's the sort of reading that comes into its own on the hours train journey south through the fields of Fife. I had never heard of Walter Lippmann so until I've started on it there's really nothing more to say.
4 comments:
Hari OM
No sign of the sun this side... just the rain. It's well set in, just in time for the Cowal Games... hey ho... Yes, I was aware of Lippman. Should be an interesting read - do let us know. YAM xx
That is a very beautiful sunrise. We are expecting thunderstorms this morning. We had nothing but clear blue skies for weeks and then, as soon as our guests arrived . . . Interesting link regarding cows and Stonehenge. Walter Lippman was an interesting man, so I hope the book is an interesting book.
Thanks for the flashback memories of the train station near St. Andrews and the one in the valley in Edinburgh.
Such beautiful sky pictures. I primarily associate Walter Lippman with advocating the internment of Japanese Americans in WW2.
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