Taken on the Isle of Skye in 2006, it is the photo that starts the Youtube clip at the end of the post.
So exciting to put this fabulous collection together – Winter photos with stories (and Haikus) to go with them:
Rainbow Jane: tracery and reflections
NanaCathy: powerful, with poetry
Melissa: swan lake and more than one haiku
Me: nature’s glitter, with haiku.
Rosalind: Mediterranean Winter
Roz: Gypsy Caravan in gorgeous setting and haiku
Cathy: beauty caught before it disappeared, with haiku.
Denis: Australian saunter with haiku
Jen: elegant birch
Ali at Thimberlina: joy and munching
Christina at ALookattheLittlethings: good neighbours
Dorris: the glisten of morning sunlight
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12 great entries, with 4 of us also linking in Ronovan’s Haiku Challenge
Thank you so much everyone for joining in and making this such a fun thing to do – if I have missed anyone please shout out!
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Appropriately we have had a wonderful week of Winterwatch on the BBC
which you can still catch on iPlayer, just click on the link above.
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I have been having a tidy up on the computer and came across this little slideshow of a beach mandala, gently transformed by the tide, that I made on the Isle of Skye about 10 years ago, a very timely find – hope you enjoy it.
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Nice wrap up! As so easily happens, I got carried away and watched three of your youtube videos. Good stuff!!
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Ha! Glad you enjoyed them. Xx
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Your wrap up too…it’s growing and growing!
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I love doing it! Am I going a bit over the top?
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Absolutely….NOT!! As long as you are enjoying it, keep on keeping on! I love reading it and just today I got over the see the others, because I could see them all in the one spot, your post. I just hope if it becomes too much for you, you will do what is best for you.
Just checking out your white wig right now! Amazing!
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My laptop just died, so not sure whether I will be able to do a review this week ☹
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Oh, ho! I’ll do it if need be. Only working one day this week and believe it or not, have my haiku done 🙂 , just need to take the photograph (it’s something in the house) and fill in a few blanks. Feeling a bit ahead of myself…all the same for my 16 for 2016. Think about it…
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Thanks Melissa. I have just made a start on the review, just to see what I can do. I think it might be ok. I ‘m sure you have plenty of things clamouring for your attention. Can’t help feeling a little relieved to hear you have a gentler week. ❤️
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Just keep in mind…even though I said I couldn’t be counted on, don’t feel you are alone. These are the times when my super powers are activated!! 😀
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😄 Ha ha! Yay! To your amazing super powers!!! You rock!
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Fabulous photo, brings back memories camping on Skye! 💚💛❤️💜💙
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Gosh Roz, what time of year was that?
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My parents were cycling around Scotland when Ww2 broke out. They were early members of the Camping Club and we kids camped most weekends from Easter to end of October. Three holidays a year touring Scotland! No wonder we now run a camp site!
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What wonderful memories you must have Roz.
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Catching up with the photographs but I got a bit confused. Ali & Cathy seems to be the same photograph as do Christina and Denis.
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Thank you Jane – I don’t know how that happened!!! The virus must have got to my poor old brain! I think I have sorted them out now. Let me know if there are any other glitches! ❤
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Fascinating slide show….watching the mandala slip away was quite mesmerizing. Snowflakes were the perfect ending. Lovely!
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Thank you Jen, so glad you enjoyed it. I only had a tiny pocket camera then, so the photos are not of great quality, but it really was mesmerizing at the time and lasted for several hours, the tide seeped in so slowly. I’d love to recreate it and take a video, but I’m not sure I could ever return to Skye, it felt so bleak, grey and bone-chillingly cold. All those photos were taken in March!
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Well, you’d have to bundle up for sure and take lots of hot coffee? tea? in thermos! It would certainly be too much cold and damp and sitting still for me.
Oooh, but you could return to Skye and do a spring or summer video … something grand is bound to happening then! 😀
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It’s an idea – there is probably a window in May of about a week when it warms up enough and before the midges take over!
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Midges???
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Yes, I believe there are clouds of the biting blighters from May til October. The visitors’ book in the cottage I was staying in was full of comments about them.
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Oh dear, think I’d be steering clear during those months! Not a fan of biting blighters.
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Your photo expresses the beautiful remoteness of this place.
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Thank you Vron.
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A lovely photograph of a lovely place!
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Thank you Jane. Have you been there?
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No, the only Scottish island I have been to is Iona.
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Beautful! I’d love to go there – or that is, I would have liked to – not sure I ever want to go anywhere further north ever again – I am craving warmth and sunshine!
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