A track well travelled.

This was a part of The Dava Way on a cold January day. It used to be a railway track running between Forres and Grantown-on Spey, but thanks to Dr Beeching's axe, the trains stopped running on it.
Now, thanks to the super human efforts of a group of dedicated volunteers, it's been made good once again, but this time, for walkers and cyclists.
Who'd have thought it! In my Telling Tales book I remember a time when the railway line provided a link between those two towns. Today, there's no  such public transport so unless you've a car and want to make that journey, you'll just have to get on your bike or warn your walking shoes they're in for a twenty two mile hike.

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A book worth reading..

I've been reading Andrew Greig's At the Loch of the Green Corrie. The book's a simple enough concept but beautifully written.
 . Not long before he died, Norman Mac Caig instructed Greig to fish at the Loch of the Green Corrie. Near Loch Inver in the far north of Scotland, it was an inspirational source for much of Mac Caig's poetry. The book's about that journey as well as the authors own life- one and takes the reader to a different and fascinating place.
I once met Mac Caig at a wedding but I think if  Mr Grieg had been the one sitting  at the opposite side of the table, he'd have seemed a lot more comfortable in  the company of strangers.


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The trees that tell the tales.

I photographed these trees last week when January hadn't  consulted  its diary and forgetting to chuck down its sleet ration. The North wind too had gone missing. Today, they're making up for it and I'm hoping my trees can withstand their onslaught. They should. They've been here longer than my seventy years.
When I was growing up, the trees stood near the stack-yard of our upland farm. I used to think that the  bare branches must be like the writing on a witch's spell book and that the two Scots Pines on the moor were an elderly couple.
Recently, they've been  much in my mind. Now, no matter what the weather might decide in the future, the trees will have an assured presence on  Telling Tales' pages.
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Telling Tales.

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This photograph of the Knock of Braemoray  with the farm of Tombain sheltering beneath was taken in January 2015. For a number of reasons, there'd be no such record if taken at the same time of year and just after the war.

The Forres to Grantown road which passes the farm, would have been snow- blocked and photography would have been reserved for people with huge cameras and mostly based in studios.

I've been writing about these times and hope you'll find the progress reports worth following.