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[visionsofnightfall]

Calanais Stone Circle, Isle of Lewis, Scotland

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[dramoor]

Divine Liturgy

Fr. Seraphim Aldea, St. Oran's Chapel, Isle of Iona, Scotland

(Images via Fr. Seraphim used with permission)

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[dvoeverie-stitches]

Excerpts from Ronald Hutton’s Stations of the Sun on Folk Practices Concerning St. Brigid

Interspersed are photos of my own Brigid Dollies, beds, and crosses.

[scotianostra]

On September 7th 1969 the Scottish naturalist and author Gavin Maxwell passed away.

Maxwell was educated at Stowe School and the University of Oxford, then became a freelance journalist, though ornithology remained his special interest. He served with the Scots Guard in World War II.

In 1945 he bought the island of Soay and described in Harpoon at a Venture he had an unsuccessful attempt to establish a shark fishery there.

Two of his most popular books were the best-selling Ring of Bright Water and the sequel The Rocks Remain about his life with two pet otters in his seaboard cottage in the west Highlands

Maxwell’s prolonged stay in Sicily resulted in two books, God Protect Me from My Friends , about the bandit Salvatore Giuliano, and The Pains of Death, on the poverty-stricken lives of the islanders. A Reed Shaken by the Wind is an account of his travels among the marsh dwellers of southern Iraq.

I return to Ring of Brightwater as this is no doubt the book, and film that you will most remember Gavin Maxwell for, a stone plaque there now marks the grave of Edal, the otter who died in the fire that also destroyed Maxwell's house. Cut into the stone is one of his most-quoted edicts: "Whatever joy she gave to you, give back to Nature."

[collectiveuncntcious]

[wouldyourathervisit]

Would you rather visit the Isle of Man, the Orkney islands, the Shetlands, or the Hebrides?

Would you rather visit

Isle of Man 🇮🇲

Orkney Islands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Shetland Islands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Hebrides 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Voting ended onFeb 20

[callumogden]

Standing stones at Machrie Moor on Arran