The Campsie Fells from North Baljaffray

Last night the predicted fall of snow materialised but the temperature today rose fast, and one hour after I took this picture there was no snow on the roofs. I liked the roofs' juxtaposition from my viewpoint - it reminds me a little of a Vlaminck print I used to have called 'Village on the River'. No river here but a wood, the mid-ground field, with a residential area of Milngavie nestling below the Campies.
This southern part of the Campsie Fells stretches in front of our home in East Dunbartonshire and is a range of volcanic hills set to the north of Glasgow. Campsie means "crooked fairy hill", from the Scottish Gaelic 'cam' meaning crooked, and sìth - fairy. 'Fell' is from the Old Norse word 'fjal' - a hill. The Campsie Fells are known as the birth place of Scottish skiing, when W. Naismith of Glasgow skied the area, becoming the first ever man to ski in Scotland in March 1892. There's actually a practice ski slope very close at hand, but that's another day's Blip!