Yes, I drove on the left...
By Misha Marston Johnson
14 Sep 2009
Scotland is the big and small, the vast spaces and thin cracks, the wind and the rain, the sun and the clouds. No matter where you are taken, you find depth, whether in the textures of clouds or faces of people or mountains.
Scotland is wide for all to see and experience. Nature is busy up there, wearing down mountains––whipping them with wind and rain. Ancient forests are gone, greenery is owned by sheep, and glacial puddles rest until they are frozen again, taken elsewhere by the ever-changing world.
This land has seen it all. I stood upon billions of years old rock. Scotland, before our time, was near the Antarctic. This land has seen it all: glaciers, desert rainforest, and grassland. Today it makes its approach to the other pole. There is something to be learned from a body that has been where Scotland has been.
This is what I learned from a week spent driving (on the left) around this country, the Northern Highlands, with my girlfriend. We camped in random places under trees, rain, and the shadows of mountains.
Enjoy this small sample (perhaps one day you will go too). I have a handful more photos from Scotland within my photostream as well.
1 response
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Michael Diamond said (15 Sep 2009):
Beautiful words to go with amazing pictures! You have a real flair!
