At the day's end ...

Ok, you've had two sunrises in quick succession and here we go again - but this is the sunset, and I simply couldn't resist it. Besides, we were out too late in the afternoon again; I'd gone supermarket shopping in the morning and met friends in the way one does - like in every aisle you bump into each other - and by the time enough food to feed a small army had been stowed away to feed two pensioners of small bulk for a week and time taken for a modest lunch (cheese, a handful of olives, a baby cucumber, a slice of home-made bread) ... by then it was after 3pm and almost too late for anything.

However, instead of the gloomy walk we were anticipating up one of the glens to the north, we turned south when we saw the lightness in the sky and arrived at the tip of the peninsula just in time to see this fabulous red sun dip below the island of Bute. We went a little further to leave the car in a forest car park and climb the hillside past the Chinese Lakes and up to the top track where we discovered new vistas opened out by recent forestry operations. 

I've added two extras to show how dark it became - the first (with the sheep in it) was taken on the way up, looking down the Firth of Clyde, and the second taken on the way down, with only that light patch of sky to give us any illumination and the muddy, rooty, stony path in almost total darkness. Silly old fools, do I hear you say ...?

But, reader, we made it!