between showers

Driving home from work, I pulled into the carpark at Irongray Church to take a photo of the rainbow which I could see in my rear view mirror, but it disappeared as fast as it had come. I took some pictures of the church instead.

In 2002, Moira Aitken, the wife of a former minister, published a study of all the memorial inscriptions in the kirkyard.  Her introduction says that the church stands on a knoll "where itinerant monks of the early Celtic church came periodically to conduct the sacred ordinances...the site..was well chosen, standing proud above the ford over the Cluden and at a Y fork on the ancient Roman road from Dalswinton into Galloway".

On the wall of the church, to the right of the tree, is a mural commemorating Thomas Maxwell, the man who built our house. He died in 1808, the year after his wife Helen. It is written on the mural that "they lived happily together in the married state for 63 years." 

The extra shows the view from the church towards our house (2 miles further up the valley) and the next wave of rain about to fall.