I needed a moment to pause as I took in the ridge that I was about to climb. ‘Oh boy. Here we go.’ Sometimes I think it would be niceContinue reading “Sunset on Cairngorm”
Category Archives: Prose
Come Further Up, Come Further In
“Over the garden fence, behind the railway and the cherry trees, the Cairngorms are waiting. They should be more than a mere background to life.”
The Oaks of Sunart
As soon as the man on the phone stopped shouting at me and hung up, I made up my mind about going away. A few minutes later I had aContinue reading “The Oaks of Sunart”
Land the Person
It occurred to me the other day, while I was walking up a hill through long grass beneath shady birch trees, that the most important and enduring relationship we haveContinue reading “Land the Person”
Glen Torridon and the Awe of Time
On a cloudy October morning in 2008, I quietly opened the door of Ling Hut, where we had arrived in darkness the night before, stepped out into the damp airContinue reading “Glen Torridon and the Awe of Time”
Looking Closely at Things
One of the great joys that photography can bring you is the ability to notice things that other people can’t see. I mean this fairly literally – until you learnContinue reading “Looking Closely at Things”