Ropes

13.0C and bright with long sunny spells. Wind to 35 mph with gusts to 49 mph, easing through the late afternoon.

I spent some time on the family tree this morning. I had been doing some work on the family of my mother's maternal great grandmother and on this occasion simply by typing a name and a couple of other place name words into Google hit upon a family tree on a web site which indicated a possible distant link to South Africa. Today I did some confirmatory research then sent off some details to the person who had posted the information online so he can add to his tree. I hope he enjoyed finding out about a distant Scottish connection as much as I did on finding a distant relation in South Africa.

Maeve and I went for a walk after lunch. We went up to the church then continued out along the country road to Scryne. We turned right at Craigmill farm and went down the track to the shore road. We came back along the cycle path where it was heavy going into the wind. We stopped to chat with a lady who has a lovely lurcher and a Jack Russell. She told me that the level crossing in the middle of the little field by the cycle path was closed to pedestrians by the farmer after a dog was killed on the railway line recently. I had wondered if it was the farmer (not the farmer from Craigmill farm) or Network Rail. A question of not wanting any similar incident to raise issues of liability. A local woman has tried to object but it looks like no public right of way was involved and we have lost that access point to the beach.

We carried on along the road and then went down to the beach at Westhaven via the road bridge over the railway. We wandered along the beach to the fishermen's huts and had a potter around.

For Abstract Thursday the inside of a boat hull was the starting point for this image. How many ropes there really were and how many photos I used to create the final image will remain a mystery ... and were the little coloured paint drops really there at all :-)

We came back along East Row then back over the road bridge over the railway then carried on round in a long loop heading into Carnoustie and up the main road before turning along for home.

DMC-LX7 f/5 1/2000 sec. ISO-80 18mm (35mm focal length 216mm)