A wonderful journey home

We left Glasgow at 9.30 this morning to drive home to Oban. I’m not sure if this a particularly good spring for flowering cherries, but on the road out towards Dumbarton we must have passed many hundreds of them, both along the dual carriageway and in private gardens.
 
We turned north alongside Loch Lomond, which is a well-wooded section of the road and where the trees were coming into leaf in a huge range of shades - Ireland’s ‘Forty Shades of Green’ had nothing on this! The hills were outlined against the blue sky and the mountain tops were sprinkled with snow - the billowing white clouds added to the picture. We’re so lucky to have this west of Scotland landscape around us. I stopped in the raised lay-by beyond Luss to take this picture of Ben Lomond, Scotland’s most southerly Munro, as mountains over 3,000ft are named.
 
After a stop for coffee we continued on and arrived home at 12.30. After lunch we sat out in the warm sunshine - 16 degrees in the shade, but 34 degrees in the direct sun - until a breeze spring up and sent me indoors for a jumper.
 
Spent the rest of the afternoon with my plants, moving pots and crates around to make watering easier.
 
Quote of the Day: ‘ . . . . the moorlands and the meadows, with their forty shades of green.’  - Johnny Cash.