Pebbles in the Keel

11.4C with a dry morning, almost becoming bright before lunch then smir. Zephyr. Rain forecast.

More family history research this morning. Instead of typing up all my recent research into my online family tree and the duplicate on my computer I decided to do some more research to try to see if I could prove a link suggested by the researcher I have been in contact with over the last couple of days. Unfortunately the link wasn't as hypothesised although I think there is the possibility of a link back a generation or two. Cousins rather than a brother and sister which was his thought. With the same surname in the same small area of the country it is logical. I'll come back to it sometime no doubt.

Maeve the Deerhound and I went for a walk after lunch. I forgot to take the Nano.

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 very wet and now muddy track to the shore road. We came back along the cycle path then carried on along the road and went down to the beach at Westhaven via the road bridge over the railway. The tide was out. There was a tractor on the beach just past the fishermen's huts and I could see Tom, Ben, and another person dumping wood on the beach below the high tide mark. Bonfire night.

We wandered along to a small hollow in the grass bank at the back of the beach just to the right of the car park where there are a couple of abandoned dinghies. I noticed some pebbles jammed into the keel of one dinghy and decided to try to make an abstract image from that. For Abstract Thursday of course!

The smir started as we came 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. Maeve was towelled dry again. She wasn't as wet today. Just the surface of her coat really.

Yesterday's mystery piece is the small blue piece in the centre of the second row. I found it just inside the corner of  the field across the road from our house the last time I was taking sunrise photos. It was lying on the surface of the field. The only clue is that the top edge looks dirty. That seems to be as clean as it will get.
There was one correct guess ... hooray !

E-PL5 f/4.5 1/125 sec. ISO-200 14mm