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Midsummers Eve…..longest day–shortest night

Midsummers Eve, for us in the northern hemisphere, is the longest day and our shortest night.  We should be looking forward to a long sunny evening but with weather so wet that ducks are in hiding there is no chance of that this evening.  To prove the point some shots from our garden of some very soggy plants……

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A Clematis bends just a little to the rain, as do Purple Loosestrife, Lady’s Mantle and a Masquerade Rose……

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So a Midsummers night sunset is very much out of the question this year “so here is one I prepared earlier” as they say.  It was taken two years ago on the Isle of Skye at 11.45pm.  A sunset was promised…. but it faded. I and this lone fisherman braved the evening and were rewarded with this ‘after glow’ reflected in the loch.  I say brave, for as the evening progressed the wind dropped and the notoriously vicious Scottish Midges came out in force.

Oh! how we suffer for our sport and art…..

Disc One

21t JUNE

15 thoughts on “Midsummers Eve…..longest day–shortest night”

  2. WOW! beginning from the last one, what a beautiful feelings should be to be there, even I feel when I watch it… So beautiful. Ant these flowers fascinating me… you are amazing dear David, Thank you, with my love, nia

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          1. Oh dear yes I know I know… during my visit this weekend, in the village something bited my arm and I left my camera down the grass… I almost forgot that I was taking dancers to the video… I hate these kind of things. Sorry dear I hope I didn’t make you said when I laughed.

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  3. Hi,
    I think the flowers and the leaves look wonderful with the rain drops on them, great photos.
    The photo of the loch has a very soft look to it, and it does look like a lovely spot.
    We get midges here as well (Oz) around water, but they are usually around in summer, and they leave little red marks where you have been bitten especially if you start scratching.

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    1. I am no expert but dowt that any specie of Clematis is native to the U.K. I may be wrong but feel they are all horticultral introductions….and the list is endless!

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  7. I can understand you don’t like too much of rain (I have xperience ;)) But your photos are very lovely. The plants certainly like some rain (not too much), and the colours are so great.

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  8. Ah, but suffering for our art is the food for such sweet sorrow. I, too, love shooting in the rain, and you have done an exceptionally fine job here (as usual). Your image of the fly-fisherman on Skye is also particularly poignant, as I am also of the same persuasion, and I understand well enough the relationship between natural insect food for the fish and (unnatural human) food for the insects. Another lovely series, David. Do you fish?

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