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Inverness In September

Jeff Zycinski | 15:35 UK time, Thursday, 3 September 2009

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My year-long plan to photograph Inverness through the changing seasons might, until now, have given the impression that it never rains in this sweet city. That is not the case.

Today I waded to my usual vantage point near the Castle and had to wrap my camera in an environmentally unfriendly plastic bag in order to keep it watertight. I shared a joke or two with a couple of toursts who were trying to do the same thing.

"These will be great to show the folks back home, " joked one man.

Then, raising the hood on my anorak, I trudged back up the hill towards the ´óÏó´«Ã½ building and encountered my colleague Jackie O'Brien. I must have looked like I was in some distress because she offered me some advice on hill-walking..

"You have to stay in the moment, " she explained, "count to five and concentrate on the numbers. If your mind drifts then start the count again."

"But I don't want to stay in the moment, " I told her, "not when I walking through the rain. I want to think about other things."

"You mean those meeting in Glasgow?".

"No, " I said, "mainly I think about chocolate cake."

At that point she stopped giving me advice.

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