This past week alone we have had three golden days of full sunshine. The temperature has been a mild fifteen degrees during the day. And so there is no excuse not to get on your bike and head out and up into the hills. I took a selfie yesterday up beside Glenburn reservoir behind Paisley and it looked as if I had a sun tan. And yet, the only sun I've had is this Scottish one. But it's not just the sun that works its way into the lining of your skin. It's the rain, the wind, the fresh air, the occasional colliding insect, the mud that my bike throws up... Nature in other words, raw and cosmic. This is the real cosmetic that doesn't so much cover your skin as invest it and imbue it with a radiance that is normally reserved for aborigines and wild birds. But then, I am an aborigine albeit with a bicycle, a wild bird (because of the bicycle), who has aligned myself Nature and thus the self-cleansing and not with the industrial and the self-filthying. Obvious, isn't it?
Not so much weather-beaten as weather-loved ;)
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