Dog Whelk

A Dog Whelk perches on a barnacle encrusted rock waiting for the moon to pull the sea back over it like a foamy blanket.

 
Vegetables at Noltland

The kitchen garden at Noltland is green and fertile as dawn  breaks over the ruin.

 
Beauty Parade

A character face, I’d say, rather than a beautiful or handsome one.

 
Cattle Panorama

A landscape full of beautiful inquisitive cattle.  Wandering along the beach at Aikerness.

 
Krummi

Krummi the Icelandic wonder-pony searches out another Polo mint.

 
Cracked Earth

The Lochs at Aikerness are empty, dry and dusty. There has been no proper rain for weeks.

 
Cereals and Sunshine

At this time of the year the ripening cereal crops take on the colour of the sun on a seemingly endless summer day.

 
The Day of the Jellyfish

Today the jellyfish came; hundreds were washed up on Westray’s beaches. Mostly they were clear with pale pink and lilac frills, a handful were deep inky purple.  Their alien life forms litter the shore.

 
Noup Head Lighthouse

Noup Head Lighthouse stands magnificent and alone on the cliffs; a brilliant shining warning of the skerries below.

 
Seabird City

Noup Head, the RSPB reserve, is seabird city. Here is a Fulmar, crouching  ungainly on the cliffs, waiting to wheel into the air.

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