We visited the Dun Beag broch, an iron age roundhouse fort. Imagine having dry stonewall skills so good that your works still persist thousands of years later!
We've been waiting for this. The thrift on Stoer Green is still waking after winter, but we know that it arrives early among the rocks close to the shoreline, so we headed there this morning. This was our reward.
The background qualifies for a #lichensubscribe tag too #Assynt #flowers
This week’s #PhotoChallenge word was ‘old’, so @Troggie and I visited the ruined palace at Bishops Waltham. It dates from the 1300s and is now a splendid ruin that you can visit for free.
I'd actually walked that particular route as I thought I might be able to get some nice snaps of the lambs, but they were in a distant field, so it wasn't to be. Not to complain though, it was all very pleasing.
I thought I had read some article a while back (within last 5 years?) that was challenging the concept of lichen as a “pioneer species” for breaking down bare rock.