Gray

The wind howled and gusted all day and I think the tide may have been higher than it was for the new moon.  But the rain for today must have fallen yesterday.  I saw a few birds battling the wind but they were distant silhouettes.  It was a perfect day to stop saving daylight.  From the climate meeting in Glasgow this month comes a vocabulary for weather like this: dreich, meaning "wet, dull, gloomy, dismal, dreary or any combination of these." 

Two squirrels went tearing across the yard, then one pretended to be a bump on a tree.  I've no idea what that was about or, in fact, if the squirrel hiding was the chaser or the chased.  But it did not look like a friendly game of chase. 

The sky showed signs of clearing around sunset, but the wind did not slacken one bit.