After six weeks of travel, almost two weeks of it in beautiful Scotland, some location memories begin to blur together. I cannot say precisely where I made this photograph. It was on the day we left Skye and made our way north to Ullapool. My recollection is that we had perhaps passed through some rain at a high point on the route, and we came to this peak and its foreground hill as the weather was beginning to clear, allowing a bit of sunlight into the scene.
Given the light=colored material on the distant, higher peak, it may be a bit hard to tell, but the mountain’s summit was dusted with snow… in the middle of May! I am a bit familiar with Scotland’s (wet!) weather now that I’ve spent a total of a month or so there, but I was surprised by the cold weather. We saw temperatures in the upper 30s at times down to sea level, and it was colder up high. When I mentioned this to some locals they confirmed that it was unusually cold for this time of year.
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