An early morning flight and a late evening flight in the Cub.
For once I managed to get up early on a non-work day and get to the airfield. We were the second aircraft to depart, after a flexwing microlight. There was still quite a lot of low cloud around:
There were some patches of full coverage, and the shadow of the aircraft had its very own circular rainbow:
The solid cover didn’t last long under the sun, and it soon started to break up:
…leaving Perthshire farmland basking in the sunshine. The farmers are taking advantage of the dry weather to get the crops in:
Three stages of harvesting in this next picture. At the bottom, crop ready for harvesting. Top right has been cut but with the straw lying in rows, and top left the straw has been baled:
A lone tree in a sea of crop:
The dark patch top right is oil seed rape, the rest probably wheat or barley:
Along the edges of the Highlands the low cloud was slower to clear. The south facing part of Birnam Hill was in glorious sunshine but the north facing bit was still enveloped in fog from the valley of the Tay:
Later, Brenda and I went for an evening bimble about 90 minutes before sunset, again in the Cub, seen here AFTER the flight:
Brenda had the camera and produced this lovely shot. The long shadows of the trees look like giants:
There’s nothing better than tootling around in the smooth air of the early morning or late evening. Summer Cubbing – can’t beat it!