out and about - 2015
11 August 2015 .............. A brief sunset - with extras
After a rather grey day, by early evening the sky had mostly cleared, and there wasn`t a breath of wind - so the sheep, the midges, and I enjoyed a rather brief sunset.
Then it was gone, and it left just a narrow band of colour sandwiched between the banks of grey cloud - the colour slowly faded away over the next ten minutes or so.
However that wasn`t the end of the display, because in the opposite direction Snowdon was looking rather good against the orangey pink sky, and Moel Elio had a thin layer of cloud around its summit, which almost looked like snow.
Well that would have been that - a nice end to the day - however later on I found that there had been another member of the party enjoying the sunset - a tick.
It appears that sheep and deer provide a useful home for ticks to breed, so maybe it wasn`t surprising that a tick took a fancy to me.
They are usually associated with long grass, but they can also hang about in overhanging branches.
It usually takes a day or two of them feeding on you before you get infected with Lyme disease, so I am probably okay in that respect, however it will be prudent to look out for the tell-tale bull`s-eye rash at the bite site over the next week or three.
Wales is not one of the areas known to have high numbers of carrier ticks - most of these areas are in England - however ticks like a temperate humid environment, and this summer has been a wet summer, so they are probably more numerous than usual, and the tick population and the incidence of Lyme disease is generally on the increase in the UK and in many other countries.
Be tick aware !
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