Hallowe'en

Thank you for all the lovely comments and support re the cards, and for that matter on all of the wonderful feedback I've had since starting the blog. My first Hallowe'en!...exciting!

One for the 'images from the neighbourhood'... You can just make out Bertie Bat in this one.

This is the view from my kitchen, and I've spent many a late evening washing up watching Bertie's aerial antics in the sky. He doesn't come every night, so when he does it's a real treat to watch. Especially set to music. He moves so fast! He seems to feast on a little cloud of insects and things which build up when there is low pressure or it's been a warm day, just in the shelter behind the neighbouring building and ours.

You can just about make out the distant mountain - I love this view and that mountain! It keeps my perspective large and distant amongst all these houses, and is the perfect weather vane. You get a 15-20 minute heads-up on all weather conditions as it comes in off the Atlantic.

Bertie swoops and gyrates on a dizzying mobius loop, disappearing and then reappearing. He's quite hard to photograph. Despite having the camera set for a fast moving subject, light levels were low, so many images came out blurred, Bertie looking more like a bow-tie than a tie-fighter.

Mostly he dines alone, but occasionally, and on this night he brought Bettina...but they moved so fast I couldn't get both, in focus, in one shot.

If I'd left the image on long exposure, I'm sure they were flying in the evening sky to spell out the words:

Happy Hallowe'en to you all!

Comments

[Sarah]

Samhain Blessings to you. Am also loving the new card's you are so talented.

[melissa]

that's a beautiful view from your kitchen sink. i've never seen a bat before- this sounds terrible but i didn't realise they were in scotland! how wonderful to be able to watch one while you are doing the dishes.