Here is Loch Lomond from a different angle altogether. This picture was taken at Inveruglas, on our way home from Iona last night with our Korean guests. The light was beginning to fade and a gentle rain starting to fall, but there was great sense of calm about the loch.That's two Friday evenings in a row I have been at Loch Lomond. How blessed is that?
But, then, there are thousands of similarly beautiful spots all around Scotland - and none of them is exactly the same two days in a row. A bit like people, I suppose.
It's the unpredictability of the natural world that makes it so fascinating to those who take the time to look carefully, and the unpredictabilityof human beings that makes relationships so challenging.
Our brains are programmed in such a way that they prefer regular patterns and routines, in order to make sense of the world around us, but there is sufficient space and flexibility in the way that we process information for us to take delight in the new or unexpected. Again, though, it requires us to stop and to notice. And when we do, we begin to make sense of the world in another way, and sense its givenness and even its Giver.
So here's another picture to stop and stare at for a few moments at the end of a day.
It was taken quite early in the morning from the window of our minibus on the road between Dunblane and Oban.
I hasten to add that on this occasion I was not the one doing the driving!
3 comments:
Lovely photos! Thank you for sharing them.
Oh, and - I've occasionally taken mobile-phone pics while driving. The only ones that come out are those taken in stopped traffic, b/c I otherwise do keep my eyes on the road!
I don't know where you live and drive, MollyB, but in this country it is definitely illegal to use a mobile phone while driving, even for phoning. You could probably now get penalty points on your driving licence if you even sneeze towards your mobile phone, never mind take pictures with it while driving!
Thank you, Iain, for another photo of the lovely Lock Lomand. Is it warm enough to swim in these days? It beckons.
"It's the unpredictability of the natural world that makes it so fascinating to those who take the time to look carefully, and the unpredictability of human beings that makes relationships so challenging." So right you are. I might add that the unpredictability of human beings does, at times, make them fascinating as well.
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