Does anyone know the location of a starling murmuration? At dusk they swoop and dance in great clouds and I would love to see that. I suppose there must be websites which give the lowdown on this and there is a big starling group at the recycling centre in the Bay, which might be a candidate.
Last night we attended a preview of the S. J. Peploe retrospective exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two (the one across the road with the fabby statue of Vulcan inside) and I really enjoyed it, I find his paintings vibrant and visceral. I’m not anywhere near qualified to comment on fine art but I know what ticks the boxes for me. We went to the Picasso exhibition recently and I found that very cerebral and distant, while the Edvard Munch works we saw were most interesting but deeply unhappy.
On the way home a huge gibbous harvest moon hung over the Forth Bridge, it would have made a terrific photograph if we hadn’t been going at 40 mph, so I hope some other bods with better plans were out and about; they will have captured some corking shots.
I have just checked gibbous in the dictionary*, it does mean a moon between half full and full, but it also means hump backed. I didn’t know that.
*I don’t just throw this rubbish together, you know.
Peploe, Samuel John, Green Sea, Iona, oil on canvas (1920s). Picture © The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation
© Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art