After a very long, cold May we’ve awoken to warmer temperatures and sunshine at last.
This photo was taken by one of our lovely neighbours from the hill above the croft whilst out on a 5am run this week. Not a sight I’d have been awake enough to capture. Thank you, Jonny.
The sun is rising before 5am now and not setting until around 11pm, giving us long, soft, light-filled days. We have another month to go before the summer solstice, so there’s more to come. It’s already not fully dark at nights and the long, light evenings on the croft are magical, if a bit chilly up till now.
We have cuckoos and swallows, linnets and skylarks, bluebells and wild garlic in the hedgerows. Suddenly everything is bursting into green leaf, and it’s feeling at last as if we’re on the brink of early summer.
I’ve taken the mesh off the vegetable beds today to get a proper look at what’s survived through this very dry, cold spring. Some things are looking very sad for themselves (leeks, lettuces I’m looking at you) but others seem to have pulled through quite robustly (full marks red cabbage, kale, beetroot, potatoes, purple sprouting broccoli and shallots).
Let’s hope that summer is on its way at long last!
Ravencroft Skye 
The vegetables are looking good. We’re all hoping for a warm spell now so that everything can kick on.
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Thank you. The locals say we’re about 4 weeks behind normal growth, and as we’re so far north that’s proba ly about six weeks behind where you are down south
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How gorgeous!! Your vegetable beds are looking amazing.
You have such a large variation in day length! I hadn’t realised how hugely that varies from place to place. Here we know it’s Winter Solstice when the sun rises at 6am and sets by 5:30pm. Summer Solstice is when the sun rises at 4:30am and sets at 9pm. That doesn’t seem to be as large a difference, must be the difference in latitude.
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It is an extreme variation, and I agree, it’s probably latitude
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