We spent the late evening of 20th April outside trying to spot some of the shooting stars from the Lyrid Meteor Shower, and also watching the satellites of the Starlink constellation as they passed high to the south west in line astern. It was a beautifully clear night with no moon....
...and quite different by early morning with a thick mist subduing the colours. But slowly, the disc of the sun appeared as a faint glow, the mist gained a bright tension......
...before dissipating as if it had never been. As soon as the sun hit the grass several Skylarks took off with an outpouring of song.
From dense mist to intense blue cloudless sky had taken less than twenty minutes. High pressure and an easterly airstream have given these very dry and cloudless conditions for a week over the northeast of Scotland, intensely blue sky and brittle-bright light - it's a joy.
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