Birsay, Orkney
Here’s one from this time last year. Birsay “beach” with a snowstorm coming in from the North. I’m amazed these photos came out, with trying to stand upright on slippery rocks in a snowstorm with flying sea-spray. The camera certainly needed some TLC afterwards!
The island of Rousay in the distance, catching a burst of sun.
“Circles everywhere.
Everything that sets out must complete a journey.
What appears to us voyagers a tangle,
random blunderings,
Is seen, angel-vantaged, as certain as the star-wheel
Or the journey from a root that ends in the June rose.
the seed, the bequest, will quicken again under snow.
Circles compel us everywhere,
Sun and stone and bird-flight.”
– George Mackay Brown.