Golden ‘Silver Birch’, Craigellachie National Nature Reserve, Aviemore
For about three hours on tuesday afternoon the heavens turned blue, and the autumn birch wood shone with 100 shades of gold. There was no wind, and for a while it was t-shirt weather. In the Highlands one has to be quick – shortly before sunset the clouds started piling up and it turned bitter. By friday afternoon we had a few heavy snow showers right down in the valley and the leaves are going fast.
“World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within us as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.”
– Marianne Williamson