Strontium

It has been a thoroughly unpleasant day; feeling bitter in driving cold rain and snow. Underfoot the hillside has been turned to mushy mud by cattle that look like they are also feeling miserable in the foul conditions. The mud is covered in soft wet snow. In normal weather you could see where a foot was landing and avoid the deepest mud but I have over topped my boots several times in the horrid slurry.
Given my camera experience earlier in the week –and my frozen digits- I have been most reluctant to extract the device from within several layers of clothing for fear of it getting drowned again. I risked it here; the upper limit of our survey; at an old Scottish Water abstraction point for Strontian village.

The highly reactive element Strontium takes its name from the village Strontian where it was discovered in lead mine arisings 1790.