The Dry Stone Walls of Cape Wrath, Scotland
…of the stones. Other words come to mind. Resilience. Permanence. Balance. Complexity. This is beautiful stuff on a major scale. I find a little bonus to looking closely at these walls. Over hundreds of years each plays host to its own ecosystem of lichen, moss, grass, bracken, spiders, mice and beetles. However, it is more than the the skill required to build these dry stone walls, their beauty and their place in nature that I dwell on. It is als… Continue reading