Winter blues that make me happy

The light. It is hard to beat the light in Scotland. 

A Saturday in February, I found my way to Rannoch train station. It is fairly remote in the winter. There is a road into the station but there are just a handful of homes. The train station buildings are closed in winter. The weather forecast was cold, unstable, and moderate winds. It is a 3 hour train journey from Glasgow. My choices were to stay for 7 hours or 1.5 hours (based on the train schedule). With a fairly good chance that I would only stay 1.5 hours, I hopped on the train because I knew that even 1.5 hours would make it worthwhile. It did.

As the train climbed onto the moor, I could tell the wind was decent strength and weather quite changeable. So I kept my walk to the road. 

And watched the snow dance in the wind. 

Steady wind slapping snow into your eyes = not so fun.
Steady wind hiding your sounds so you suddenly find yourself face to face with a young stag = amazing.

A few more steps and suddenly the clouds closed in and darkened as if it was dusk. But I wasn't lonely making my way in the wind...

 A few more steps and the sun was back, casting shadows over the moor...

As I turned back, the wind had erased all sign of me in a blink of an eye...

The wind left its mark in the form of beautiful, artistic snow highlights - on man-made structures...

and nature alike...

With a few minutes to spare, what was a girl to do while waiting for the train?