Three Beautiful Things - South Uist

Monday, May 21, 2012 at 8:29PM
Velvet Snoutingdingle in 3BT

 

1. Low mountains at dusk, stacked on top of each other in shades of purple-grey into the distance. The sea like worn blue glass below. The sky the colour of salmon above.
2. The smell of peat smoke overlaid with the seashore and the seductive malt.
3. The song of the short-earred owl eager for a mate.

 

Article originally appeared on The Night Planted Orchard (https://www.nightorchard.org/).