Teed up

A view from the 18th tee this afternoon. Not that I was playing golf, it was just as far as I was prepared to go for a photograph today. Which was not very far. No sign of an X-shaped cloud* in the sky for St Andrew's day either. Elon Musk would probably sue for copyright infringement if there was.

*Andrew was first hailed as Scotland’s patron saint in 832, after Oengus II led an army of Picts and Scots to victory in a battle against Aethelstan’s Angles at East Lothian. Oengus was badly outnumbered and feared defeat until he saw an X-shaped cloud in the sky and interpreted the phenomenon as divine intervention, praying to Andrew and promising to name a day in his honour if his army won the ensuing battle.

The rest is history as they say. And an X became a Saltire...