Deeply blue at the Dunoon turning ...

While awaiting a friend at the turning onto the single track to Dunoon from Glendaruel the clouds opened to reveal this deep blue - as if to tease us about the coming of summer.

Not only that, I stood there in the sunshine for a quarter of an hour and in that time spoke to three people who were passing by on their way to other things.

Only in Cowal can you do this - be alone on a roadside and find that actually you've been more social in a quarter of an hour than you have all week ...