For 3 days we have have clouds sitting in the lower parts of the landscape. However, if one happens to drive out from one's house (in the suburbs of Glasgow) low and behold, there is sunshine and all the cloud is sitting in the valley below.
This is what caught my eye when driving back from Helensburgh to Milngavie. These trees (in a circle on a hill outside Bearsden, called Castlehill - very, very old site) were hidden in the fog which enveloped the rest of the suburb.
I pulled off the road on a farm track and grabbed my camera. This is the outskirts of Glasgow, showing the pylons which bring our electricity to the city. Yes, it is countryside, complete with horses and cows.
And here is the farmer's hay all stacked and ready for the winter.
I then rushed up to Mugdock to where there is an escarpment giving a fine view of the city below.
It really was socked in and did not lift... at all.
Above the Milngavie Resevoir looking east. The temperature was 2 degrees above zero and stayed that way for 2 days. Fog is more an east coast thing; we seldom get this. (In the past - before the days of the city being smoke-free - it was a real problem both for health and buses trying to navigate. Iain recalls having to get out and walk ahead with a newspaper wide open so the driver could 'see'!)
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