We're now sitting in a run of northwesterlies which are bringing much colder air and heavy showers. In a few days, we seem to have moved from autumn into a premature winter. The showers are drawn across the view like dark curtains, this one seen passing over Tobermory.
Some of the showers are falling as hail - this picture shows our front yard at 6pm last night during a particularly heavy downpour, after which the temperature dropped to 3C, with the result that the hail lay, like a blanket of snow, through the first part of the night. And the hailstorms come with thunder and lightning. These natural pyrotechnics aren't appreciated. Our power line, which must be fifty years old now, is strung along miles of peninsula and has a nasty habit of failing during electric storms.
Then, suddenly, the sky clears and we have a few minutes respite....
....which give the small birds a chance to come out and sing.
The robins are particularly active - perhaps they're staking out their territories for the long winter ahead.
Work on the power lines started late 1975,we were switched on in October 1975. The work on the line was done by Balfor's who were a part of the huge Balfor /Beaty group.
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