They say the light at the seaside is different. I have to agree.
For instance, this is a pumpkin. That bit is probably obvious. What's not obvious is that it's sitting on the side table, and that this is just a quick snap with no staging, taken with a not great camera by a beginner-level photographer. That colour is amazing!
That's the thing about this place we are staying at for Thanksgiving - the light. It's near Kirkcudbright, a town famous for it's association with the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists. I see why they came here. Ordinary things take on a glow, a luminescence, like in this photo of a mossy tree trunk taken on a walk to the beach during a sunny break in the weather. I love moss, and I love the colour of moss, and I must have a hundred pictures of mossy things. On holidays, day trips, anywhere really, I will be the one squatting down awkwardly to get just the perfect shot of some wee mossy thing. But as moss obsessed as I am, even I think the colours in this photo are something special.
Here is a photo of more moss on a stone wall boarding a field nearby the trees in the previous photo. Stunning, no?
And the skies here . . . omg, the skies.
Incandescent.
And when the sun isn't melting into the earth in a fiery display of it's most beautiful and peculiar alchemy, it's illuminating seashells like they were precious gems. . .
. . . or just being it's fabulous self. Sun, you are such a show off. Don't ever change. :)
Thanksgiving has been a blast. We were able to spend some time with old
friends that we hadn't seen in a year, since last Thanksgiving in fact,
and this place by the sea is amazing. It's the perfect setting for good
food and great company, don't you agree?
By the way, our turkey was grown on a farm about ten miles to the left of that rise. I don't know if it's the freshness or the breed (we went for Bronze) or simply the fun we had preparing it with friends, but it might have been the best turkey I've had yet.
I hope this Thanksgiving was a good one for you as well.
Slainte mhath!
~Margarete
