Birch leaves – Its always a joy to see the transformation over a few days from coppery winter branches to the bright yellow-green of the new leaves.
Tag: birch
Snow Trees
Birch – the tree of light. In the twilight there is a magical presence here, at any time of the year, but it seems amplified with snow underfoot reflecting the pink sky.
Birch Tracery
Coppery tresses of birch streaming in the wind. The heavy frost which had built up over several days was thawing as a warmer breeze came in, making the birch glisten in the sun.
Blue and gold
Autumn Birch, Craigellachie A stunning autumn morning at Craigellachie lochan, one of my favourite places locally. The lochan is definitely a morning place – at this time of year the sun sets behind the crag by late morning throwing the wood into shade. There was just one morning recently when we had early sun, so […]
Sunshine and Showers
Early summer snow, storms, and rainbows over Rothiemurchus and Cairngorm.
Tree Tracery
Birch tracery with sunset haze, Torr Alvie, on a cold but beautifully sunny spring day.
Snowstorm
Snow pelts down at Craigellachie lochan, icing the loch, clogging the lens.
Tracery
Viewing the misty valley through a delicate tracery of Birch branches.
Birch Baubles
Birch trees shimmering with light Some more images from last week’s outing to Torr Alvie. With no wind, the morning mist left the trees and grasses coated in dewdrops. In the low temperature these don’t evaporate but stay all day, coating everything in a multi-faceted sparkling silveriness of countless refractions through the water drops. As […]
Argus Meadow
The play of light, Silver Birch, Strathspey The meadow is a wild grassland, an open space amongst the surrounding birch woods. There are old tumbled ruins suggesting that it was once farmed, or maybe a sheiling where animals were taken to graze during the summer. Earlier in the summer it was full of wild flowers, […]
Light in the Birch
Light in the Birch I walked to the Craigellachie lochan arriving just before sunset – the sun sets sharply behind the steep crags which circle the loch. The birch are about to come into leaf (very early this season after the warmer winter) and have a beautiful purple colour. I’m amazed at the effect of […]
Stillness
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 […]