6th January 2010
We woke up on the morning of the 5th to find we’d had a fresh fall of snow on the hard-packed snow/ice already there.
The first two photographs are from the back garden.


Later on we were down beside the beach. I’ve never seen snow lying there before.



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2nd December 2009
After church on Sunday we took a look down at Ayr beach. Unsurprizingly there weren’t many folk about as you could have cut jerky with the wind.
It did however give a clear light to get these photographs of Arran. Note the white on the tops – just frost, no snow yet!


I just had to photograph this ‘mad’ dog which was racing about the beach, though to no obvious purpose. Perhaps it was burning off energy or just trying to keep warm.

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28th November 2009
These photographs were taken at about 14.00 hours on Wednesday. There was a bit of a wind!

This is a close-up of the previous shot. Note that the wall you are looking at is practically vertical and is absolutely covered in spume.


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20th November 2009
This was taken at Ayr Beach on Wednesday morning. The promised storms of Tuesday evening didn’t really materialise – it was wet and miserable, but ….

We are however promised severe weather Wednesday night and Thursday!
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5th November 2009
These photographs were taken on Monday afternoon following the horrendous rain and wind on Sunday and before more rain came again on Tuesday. Horrendous because of the considerable flooding it caused in many parts of Scotland though luckily not here.




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30th August 2009
This was taken from further round the bay and shows the effect of the strong wind we had.

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29th August 2009
Earlier this week I managed to get some reasonable photographs at Prestwick. Obviously the beach had been cleaned fairly recently.

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16th August 2009
In this case sand-castles. These two shot of Ayr beach, one long distance and the other zoomed, show that even on quite a good day with fairly good temperatures, the number of people on the beach, especially kids building sand-castles, was minimal. It wasn’t so long ago I could remember the beach being so crowded that it was difficult to find a place to sit down – or is that just nostalgia and a poor memory?


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11th May 2009
Panorama of photographs from last Friday at Ayr Beach.



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26th October 2008
In contrast to my post on 22 Oct 2008, here is the photograph I took last Friday.

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