All roads lead to the sea ...

Of course they don't. The road I was just about to go up to the right leads to the hills behind Dunoon. But this is the main road that bypasses the (one-way) town centre and takes the traveller from the north on down to the south of the Cowal peninsula, and some miles further on the end of the road as it goes along Loch Striven. So in a sense it leads nowhere, but it points to the Firth of Clyde, the Great and Little Cumbraes (just showing on the left of the horizon), Arran (a tiny corner shows on the right) and, further still, the triangular shape of Ailsa Craig ( I suspect you'd need to zoom in to see it).

It also seems today, as often, to lead to the promise of brighter weather and less rain. This is a sad truth; the combination of hills and forest gives us a rainfall that only Fort William can surpass.  And it's cold.

But it hasn't snowed ...