April showers

The weather was pretty amazing today. Although it was warm and sunny, the sky above looked wild. Against the bright blue sky there were big solid grey-white clouds and also wispy wind-blown clouds that looked like torn hankies. It was beautiful but also incongruous; it looked more like an extravagant painting of an imaginary sky than a real sky! When I got home from work I walked down to the doctor’s to pick up a prescription and the temperature was most pleasant, warm with a slight breeze. However when I was on the way back home, the sky to the west had turned into one big black cloud, all the more ominous because I was still strolling along in sunshine. About an hour later there was torrential rain followed by a sudden hailstorm. Flora was intrigued by the sound of the hail hitting the garden path and she jumped into the window sill and stared at the hailstones bouncing on the slabs. 

It has all been fascinating but we will miss the next exciting instalment of Scottish spring weather because tomorrow we are setting off to Prague for a wee break.