DEW DROPS. (12/09/14)

I am tired. I heard yesterday that our sun was misbehaving so checked AuroraWatch for any sign that their magnetometers were showing anything and it was just the normal wriggly black line. I heard a quick bit on the news saying that there could be an aurora in the early hours of today. I got up and waited till half two but nothing except dew. I went to bed.

The dogs woke me at five and I decided to go out with a tripod and an extension tube on the 100mm macro lens. The dew had all but gone. I didn’t bother with the tripod.

     Dew Drop.

    And another. They could both have done with being sharper. Both shot at f9 with ring flash.

I wandered back to the van for breakfast and it was still murky and misty. I decided to walk the mile up the road to look at Signal Rock. I had just got to the new footbridge over the River Coe at the back of the Clachaig Inn. It hasn’t rained for a week so it wasn’t very impressive.

   I was just deciding what to do when the dogs shot off back towards the car park. I whistled but to no avail. Even Alf who usually comes to a whistle ignored me. I wandered after them dreading that they had found a deer and be gone for an hour or more. No they had found a friend of theirs called Sam he is a Border Terrier and lives near Foyers. We haven’t seen him since the spring but they knew who was there at a good quarter of a mile. When I rolled up ten minutes behind the dogs, Helen, Sam’s mum, was feeding them biscuits. She said aren’t they lovely and picked a wet Molly up to give her a cuddle. What can one do? My dogs are very social but I wish folk wouldn’t reinforce bad behaviour. Helen and Sam are on their way to Killin for the weekend and had just stopped for a quick tiddle break. Presumably for Sam but one can never be sure.

We then retraced our steps to the Clachaig and walked the old road to Loch Atriochan. It was still misty but the sun was starting to show. There were no reflections in the Loch but I did like the look of the upper reaches of the Glen.

   I sat for twenty minutes while the dogs snuffled about the eastern side of the loch. The mist kept shifting about. I’m happy at long last I have a new image for my desk top.  The dogs have tics which I am not so happy about. I’ll wait till they have had supper and get going with the tic fork. I do use FrontLine or Onestop but only every few months as it does make them dozy and off for a few days. It is expensive and the tics have been sucking for a day before it kills them. I have a set of small green fork thingies for removing them and then I burn them with the little blow torch that I use for putting a caramel crust on custard. I hate tics. I had one on my tummy a week ago. No. I don’t want suggestions of how it got there. I’m not Welsh or a Shetlander. I can only assume it got between the buttons on my shirt whilst I was giving the dogs a cuddle. Teach me to be posh and wear a shirt with buttons.

Have a great weekend.