Travel Day to Mull

Pretty uncreative title today, don't you think? A sign of fatigue, I'm afraid. Long day, lots of rain, bumpy roads--those are the negatives. There are two positives: congenial company and magnificent sights, even through rain, drizzle, fog, mist---how many words do they have here for water falling from the sky? But the weather has rarely affected our appreciation of the landscape even when it restricted the number of photos we took.

I especially enjoy the great wide-open glens--treeless and very green with a large white house tucked into a hillside. Here is one, not a perfect image but an impression:

It poured rain a good part of our journey and one positive was the heavy flow in waterfalls:

This is a single section of cascades that rushed all the way down a very tall hill!

Tobermory is the main town on Mull; it has traditionally maintained a colorful Main Street:

Tomorrow I will wander over to Iona for the day, Bill and Mary may join me in the morning, then take a five-hour trip to some islands to see puffins. It sounded to me like a very long time bouncing around in a boat after doing so in the car all day today, besides it's Iona I came to see. I plan to sit and think a lot. Wander, look, think. Repeat. Repeat again and again.

I had been eager to begin work when I return home, but now I just feel worn-out. So many ideas I wanted to begin and tonight, they have all vanished. There is a hill in front of the Abbey and I plan to sit there if it's dry enough and just BE. My first plan was to look through my photos and make plans for how to design what I want to create, but I think that would be futile and stressful.  I have a small notebook and I may write or not. I am certain I will take many photos, weather willing, but I hope to just experience this special place. Just be.