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scottish signage

I’m not sure what a “weak road” might actually be, but I guess it’s safe enough to drive on if you’re trying to get to the golf course.

Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland
photographed 11.10.2023

storeroom

 

Scotland is many things, including an abundance of textures – walls, windows, mailboxes, traffic cones, signs – all in one handy location.

Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland
photographed 11.10.2023

sound of mull, morning

 

The morning that the rest of the group hiked to a lighthouse I decided to NOT hike to a lighthouse. Part of it was that I wasn’t keen on hiking on a bunch of black ice, but mostly I felt the call to get some photographs that weren’t going to be similar to what everyone else was going to get.

It sounds pretty anti-social when I write it down, but anyway, here’s the non-lighthouse view that I saw that day…

Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland
photographed 11.10.2023

death lends a hand

…and so this ends another year of posting daily images. This image is from a graveyard in Scotland; I was attracted to that hand reaching out from the face of  the marker holding tight to…something.

And, on another note, today is 18 years since my beloved mom died, after a fall at her house. I usually don’t plan out my posts – they just land where they land – but this year I saved this image from Scotland to post today. It seemed fitting. (Here’s something I wrote ten years ago about my mom and her death. I still stand by every word of it.)

near Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, Scotland
photographed 11.9.2023

weathered (and weather)

You’ve seen photos of this beached boat here and here. But I couldn’t resist just one more – there was a brief time (maybe as long as a minute?) when the sun came out and the colors of the boat just came to life right in front of me.

near Salen, Isle of Mull, Scotland
photographed 11.9.2023