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……
A Clematis bends just a little to the rain, as do Purple Loosestrife, Lady’s Mantle and a Masquerade Rose……
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…..
21t JUNE
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