Tag Archives: landscape

Callanish Calling: Light of the World…

* What we had thought were the distant hills of Bonny Scortland, so recently traversed, turned out to be the hills of Skye herself yet to be encountered. * This trip was already proving to have more surprises than a … Continue reading

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Callanish Calling: Star Stones…

* ‘Imposing though it may be, it is also cramped…’ – Burl * “And in any case, it’s the wrong time of year!” “I had that thought too, but we could just treat it as a ‘reckie’.” “A ‘reckie’ for … Continue reading

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Callanish Calling: Thin White Stones…

* ‘This site, important for its grandeur, its design and its astronomy, is a complex, of a diminutive stone circle, an avenue, three rows and a chambered tomb…’ – Burl * “To be ‘called’ is not the same thing as … Continue reading

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Callanish Calling…

* Dear Wen, I have booked an additional day off work – The Wednesday… However, we possibly need a bit more of a plan than, ‘If we have it we can fill it’, for me to book any more time … Continue reading

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‘A Forest’…

* …The drink has stirred up my emotions and memories of the trip flick through my mind in no particular order but return, time and again, to Cardwell… * Its waterfall and rock-pool. The water, black as death. The surrounding … Continue reading

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Space Time…

* ‘…You may as well know now you are far more likely to see the spiritual than you are to read it. The spirit came first and we learned to see before we learned to read. It is nigh on … Continue reading

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Islands in the Sea…

* …“No matter,” says Wen, “they sometimes put contact details up.” She starts to scrutinise the notice board of the porch and then taps a number into her phone… “No answer!” Bugger times two! We content ourselves with a swift … Continue reading

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Bedwyr’s Song

Bedwyr’s Song On the dark road to midnight The bard takes his rest With a song in his dream And his heart on the Quest. The hollow hills beckon, The call of the Fae… The Light in his heart burns … Continue reading

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IndieAni Bones and the Chambered Tomb

If I thought the first part of the adventure had taken ages, the next bit seemed to take even longer. She says it didn’t, and that I was just getting a bit excited… but I don’t know so much. The … Continue reading

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Love Hog…

* If the first is a foot race, then the second is run on a chariot… Both lead to a film company producing the self-same film. * Continue reading at France & Vincent

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