Light

 A trip to Dundee yesterday to ride the track for an hour. I was pleased to do about 50 laps steady, with a break after 30 .It's a 400 metre hard track, shallow banked. It was a lovely day and most of it was spent with various friends including one who is on palliative care with liver cancer.

Great to sit chatting in the sun with him, planning what he needs doing in his garden. The front is Alpines, so little maintenance, but the back needs strimming down and the redcurrants need some tlc and possibly picking soon. There is a fence post that needs a metpost base sinking in to replace the but that has rotted in the earth too.

Then supper with a friend down the road from him, sitting in the sun in the garden,relaxing and talking.  Seventy miles to drive home from there, but easy driving done after the rush hour.

Glasgow still gets very busy, but roadworks through the middle make it worth avoiding certain times!!

9.45 pm and we stopped for an Ice cream break.....

And at 10.50 after finishing unpacking...

It still wasn't dark!

I woke at 3.30 am this morning and from our room the clouds above the hills were pink....and the sky from my study a beautiful apricot colour.

I know further North they have the Simmer Dim, when it hardly gets dark atall...but we are appreciating the light...Solstice is early Monday morning.