Half an hours drive from Glasgow. About an hours walk so far. Sun is shining, stags roaring and a raven croaks. Good start to the September weekend. No one else around.
#Sunset over the Clyde Estuary this evening
Bookmarked gpx.studio — home.
just used this briefly today to trim a track I didn’t stop at the right time. Worked a treat.
#SilentSunday
A walk from Braeval car park near Aberfoyle today. The weather put me off the hills. Given low cloud general dullness I took a few photos of small things.
Autumn Journal
Listened to 220. Autumn Journal – Rerun — Backlisted Where actor Sam West read a rather lovely section of the poem. A bit of a search found Mr West’s collection of #PandemicPoems music on soundcloud. Not sure how I missed that. Delighted to find
Read: Cairn by Kathleen Jamie ★★★★★ 📚
The common curlew, as the old books have it,
Fragments, essays, poems & notes, following the natural world, and the mess we have made of it. Beautiful.
Read: West by Carys Davies ★★★★★ 📚
There is something endlessly pleasant about the quick flurries of bats in the trees at this time of day, and the soft crepitation of insects all around: a steady in-out susurration as if the earth itself is breathing.
Lovely book so brief & clear. A handful of characters, simply drawn. Cy, obsessed by possible monsters heads west into wild lands leaving his daughter in an awful situation.
Peacock Butterfly Feeding on knapweed.
things to consider