Lewis Weather - An Update

For the last  half dozen or more weeks the Isle of Lewis has had little or no rain.  Just like New Zealand's Hawkes Bay up to a week or so ago.  There, however, the similarity ends.  In Hawkes Bay the temperatures  have rarely been below the mid 20s ℃.  The same cannot be said for Lewis where it's been unseasonably cold.

A friend Dave who lives across the valley recently took these photos in the Lews Castle grounds.

I cannot ever recall seeing the grass so brown and dead this far into the spring.  Apparently the lambing ewes are having to be fed supplementary feeds.

St Moluag's, Eoropie

Last year CJ and I went to Eoropie on Lewis.  We visited St Moluag's, a 13 century church.  It was a magnificent day and we took plenty of photos (nothing new there then).  Dad (and he was by no means alone) always told me that anything leading the eye towards the main subject of a picture should be off-centre.  As a rule I agree.  Rules are, however, there to be broken on occasion.  This, in my view, was one of those occasions.

There's a lot more to this little church but the rest can wait for another day.

Sometime I Sits and Thinks

...and sometimes I just sits.

Molly will be visiting Eagleton next week and, doubtless, she will do what she so often does and stare down towards the pier and the beach below the house.  This is one of David's (Molly's master)  favourite photographs. Molly would sit and do that for hours. We're still not sure what she finds so fascinating - sheep, birds, folk on the beach?

Callanish Stones in Winter

Pat sent me some photos the a few days ago demonstrating the wonderful weather I was missing.  I think it happened to be the day the sun disappeared for a morning here in Napier.  I was going to ask if anyone could tell the difference between this photo of the Callanish Stones in winter and one taken in summer.  Then I realised, of course, that the sun is shining in this one.  But then I think the sun shone for a few days last May too.

At moments like this I could feel very, very homesick!