Yesterday's late afternoon luminosity.

Beinn Alligin, over the garden hedge.

As we drove along the wee road home, as it skirts Loch Sheildaig, what should greet us but a big, boisterous squall.
Ah! #springtime in the Highlands!

Home from a long trip to see family in France (where spring was in full flow) &NWEngland. Greeted by fantastic squalls, cuckoos, bee-filled cherry trees, snow on the tops. I enjoyed my rest from social media. Thanks for all the emails messages of concern etc I'll reply asap 😊

The winner of the Richard Jefferies Award for best nature writing published in 2023 will be announced on 3 May. Good luck to the brilliant shortlisted writers: Annie O'Garra Worsley #michaelmalay Roger Morgan-Grenville John Lister-Kaye Mark Cocker Orchid Outlaw richardjefferiesaward.org

Late, late afternoon.
Baosbhein. The Wizard.
875m asl and 11 km from home.
What a mountain.
Glorious. Wild. Magnificent.
Humbling.

Gusting to a little over 55mph at the moment but there's a storm coming... and it looks like she just hoisted her mainsail... the islands have disappeared.
#StormKathleen

(View from the Seaweed Road over the sea to Skye.)

In this strange & sudden warming, I've opened our doors & windows. The air rushing into house, mind & body is filled with the incense of myrtle. What a day. What a blessing. The whole valley is now a cathedral 🧡

A short photoblog about trees, tree planting and hope for the future.
Happy weekend everyone!
#FridayFeeling
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Late, late afternoon.
Baosbhein. The Wizard.
875m asl and 11 km from home.
What a mountain.
Glorious. Wild. Magnificent.
Humbling.

A short photoblog about trees, tree planting and hope for the future.
Happy weekend everyone!
#FridayFeeling
…fromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/the…

Bog myrtle hollow on the hill. Filled with the richest, cathedral-scale incense and eye-aching colour.

#FridayFeeling
#PrayingForPeace

If any of you are in the area, I hope you can drop in and have a look around. Also if you can make the opening on 11th May, it would be great to get to chat too. Also featuring work from David Queenan & Grant Bulloch at Smithy Gallery 11th May - 1st June

Fresh snow on Bynack More and Beinn Mheadhoin today. Much more forecast tomorrow as Storm Kathleen arrives. Winter is back! #Cairngorms #snow #winter

A copper and silver morning...

Opinan, Wester Ross. View to the Trotternish, Isle of Skye.

A fascinating obituary for an extraordinary palaeobotanist: Estella Bergere Leopold.

'She argued that the value of a place was partly the result of its ecological history and how environmental events shape it.'

Yes yes yes!
nature.com/articles/d4158…

'I soon spent all of my spare time beachcombing, searching the shore for the strange and curious things that the tide leaves behind.'

Sally Huband on the things brought ashore to coincide with the paperback publication of her fantastic book SEA BEAN.
theguardian.com/travel/2024/ap…

Truly the most delightful afternoon meeting Annie O'Garra Worsley, seeing her beautiful nature restoration and ancient byre, and talking all manner of shared fascinations, frustrations & joys ! Thank you Annie 💚

It was wonderful to welcome the remarkable Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes today! We talked Neanderthals, crofting, writing, academia, rewilding, medieval crucks, planting trees, holidays & family. Then with great joy & laughter, we watched the 1st sand martin, home at last, swoop about our heads.

Trees are on my mind...