This was very much a quick snap on the way home tonight, and mainly as a result of missing the traffic lights and knowing there'd be a long wait. We don't often see cranes like this over Inverness, and I've been meaning to blip this one for a while. My intended angle on it wasn't from here, but I liked the silhouette against the evening's sky.

Been overdoing the exercise a bit this week. Have done at least two different forms every day so far. Though the main culprit was the one mile run, on Tuesday evening... the first in a few years. And as usual, it's a day and a half later (today) that it hurts most. Heart and lungs coped easily, but my leg muscles haven't been this sore in a long time. It will be a few more days before I repeat the process. Didn't stop me cycling to work, and going for a swim tonight... the return cycle journey was somewhat slow.

What possessed me to go running? That evening there was a power cut for about an hour. After doing a few chores, it was becoming too dark to do much indoors. "What to do? I fancy going for a run." In the past the reason was always out of necessity - after being persuaded to enter some crazy challenge like the Highland Cross. Have managed to avoid that since 2003, though have recorded the event photographically for the last three years.