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. (It is hard to identify these Scottish peaks after returning back to the US, but this one may be Spidean Coire nan Clach.)
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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