After some great spring weather we had snow on Monday and Tuesday! I had to go to Glen Etive , driving through Glencoe the landscape was completely white .
Glen Etive is a beautiful valley overlooked by dramatic mountains. Some of the last part of the Bond film Skyfall was filmed here . By coincidence the family of Ian Fleming (who wrote the Bond novels) owns the estate .
Today we had more wintry showers interspersed with bright sunny periods. Painting the sketch above conditions changed moment to moment. When I started there was a huge black cloud over Glen Nevis obscuring most of the Mamores whilst the foreground was in sunshine, and the sky on the left was blue . Later the mountains revealed themselves and rain started over Fort William. The view is from Inverlochy the site of a battle in 1645. I placed my sketchbook on the little monument. The inscription reads:
He either fears his fate too much
or his deserts are small
that dares not put it to the touch
to gain or lose it all.
James Graham 1650
