Wet and windy most of the week.....how did I manage over 100 miles?

Various trees either blown down or branches blown off, either way I wouldn't like to have been underneath them when it happened.

Mark and I did the Red Road up to West Kip and discovered it had been trashed by logging operations, lets hope its's reinstated fairly soon as it's a complete mess for biking and hill walking as it is presently.

Even with all the rain this week, there's very little difference to the water level in some of the reservoirs, this is Harlaw which is going to need a lot more wet weather to fill it back up!

Barrie and I managed to find a track we'd never ridden on before and though there was the odd tricky patch it'll make a good diversion from time to time.

Out today and came across a cow on the track at one point, it looked a bit aggressive at first but a volley of bad language sent it on its way and it cleared the fence back into the field it belonged in with consummate ease!

Finally, even after all the wild weather this week I still managed to get a photo of a fragile butterfly feeding on one of my fuchsias!!