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On Flanders Moss the wind was making the frog spawn quiver like a bog.

Chimney, crevasse, stack- mountain words on the flat #peatlands.

Irish Bord na Mona peat bricks in the Great Glen.

These diggers working to re-wet the #peatlands and save carbon at Flanders Moss near Stirling have travelled from 130 miles away before they even begin working, each using approximately 11 litres of fuel per hour.

I like the realism of the wide, double rear tyres. This spreads the weight of the tractor and prevents it being bogged down and damaging the delicate water balances of the moor.

Differences are put aside as all the family help to bring home the peat.

…giant chickens or tiny tractor?

“The weyward Sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the Sea and Land…

Butter in a wooden trough preserved in a peat bog in Durness on the North coast of Scotland. NMS,Edinburgh.

…with Caithness peat.