Bog/wildlife.

Autumn mosses.

 

On the other side of the year the hairy caterpillars remain on the moss whilst their predator, the cuckoo, has long flown [someone else’s] nest.

Early November, Flanders Moss.

The Dead of the Field.

“2.Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob…17. So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations…” Matthew, chapter 1.

Poppies commemorating father and son, both sacrificed, Lewis.

Loch to peat bog. As a further illustration of yesterday’s post this hoard of everyday Iron Age objects was cast into a loch as an offering to the ancient gods. Two thousand years later they were uncovered by a man cutting peat. n.b. one of the rusted metal objects at the left is Scotland’s earliest discovered peat spade blade.

National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Raised peat bog formation.

Gail’s Macallan.

Night mosses.