Calm reflections, Craigellachie lochan, Aviemore
There’s been a bit of a gap in the Inspirational Image since December. Partly down to the seemingly endless stormy weather – I haven’t been out at all with the camera in weeks – partly I’ve just had my head down! Its been unseasonally warm (I’m using warm here in a technical sense of not-actually-freezing) so we haven’t had the brightness that snow brings.
I love the coppery midwinter colours of the birch in this image, a calm moment at the lochan for reflection during the down-time of midwinter, with the beautiful quality of the low light.
“But don’t be satisfied with stories,
how things have gone with others.
Unfold your own myth, without complicated explanation,
so everyone will understand the passage,
We have opened you. . . .”
– from ‘The Essential Rumi’, translated by Coleman Barks