This is to show you just how light it is at night this time of year – I took this photo from my bedroom window at 11.30 p.m last night. It doesn’t get any darker at the moment but the birds do stop and it is magically silent for a few hours in this long Shetland twilight (“Simmer Dim”).
Anywho, today was lovely. The sun shone and all was good. It was a rather strenuous dog-walk, when Pepper successfully and expertly removed some hill sheep from our field (separating them from my flock, getting them through three gates onto the track) like a well-trained collie, listening to my instruction. I was telling her what I wanted, and miracle of miracle, Pepper understood and made it happen. So I decided we all needed to have a sit down in the garden to recover from such exertion. Ted was no help, of course. It was not his bag.
Feeling better and after lunch, we moved ourselves to my shed and I made a felted sheep.
Everyone was there recovering from Pepper’s efforts.
And then OH came home from work and everyone wanted to leave.
(I do love this photo very much).
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I guess this is the answer to ‘I wonder how far south the 24 hours of light occurs?’ How I would love ‘simmer dim’!
I am impressed with you & Pepper sheepherding! I am not sure, bright as my canine pals have been, if they would understand ‘right’ or ‘left’ signals; maybe the key is to be raised in Scotland, both human & canine. I looked up ‘hill sheep’ a while ago, thinking that the sheep somehow preferred elevation, but it appears that we are talking just about sheep breeds, not any geographical preferance. I think animals can breathe a sigh of relief that I stuck with botany rather than zoology.
Great pictures! good to see Ted.
YES, I loved the monster and Pepper photo, but then I love anything with monster and of course Bert and Ster my other faves. 😉