Up, across or down?

The Westray coastline is so beautiful on a glorious day it’s hard to know whether to look up, look across or look down.

Westray coastline - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

On the west side of the Island there are cracks in the rocks with beautiful lichens peppering the surface:

I’m fascinated by the angles at which the rock cracks.

It’s rare to look at an Orkney sky and see only one type of cloud, unless, of course, it’s foggy:

Westray coastline - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

There’s a different texture to each type of cloud formation.

There’s also a texture to each rock, with barbed wire on the rocks, barnacles surrounding rock pools and lichen in pale tufts and in white crusty platters:

Today the Atlantic is both blue and green:

Westray coastline - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

If stones could speak, what would they tell us? Here, an isolated rock appears to be carved in Viking runes:

Rock - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

I think it’s saying “Look all around. It’s a glorious day.”

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