As the slabs dry they are raised into bigger pyramids. 

Since 1964 approximately 5.3 cm of peat has formed, about the height of this birthday cake I found on my table today.

Steve McQueen peat brown wax windcheater jacket from Barbour.

Summer Queen, Autumn Queen, Winter Queen, Spring Queen.

Midsummmer Queen

I saw these two boggle-eyed creatures staring at me beside the boggy pool on Bankhead Moss.

 

Swollen curve of the raised bog dotted with bog cotton and encircled with silver birch.

“If it wisnae fur yir wellies, where wud ye be?…”

Homage to Billy Connolly on being knighted.

Recalling his music teacher:

“She was a psychopath. Totally addicted to ‘Mhairi’s Wedding.’ Every music lesson we got “Mhairi’s Wedding’…

…Plenty herring, plenty meal
Plenty peat to fill her creel,
Plenty bonny bairns as weel
That’s the toast for Mhàiri.

Chorus:

Step me gaily, on we go
Heel for heel and toe for toe,
Arm in arm and row on row
All for Mhàiri’s wedding.”

 

“The charm placed of Brigit
About her neat, about her kine,
About her horses, about her goats,
About her sheep, about her lambs:

Each day and each night
In heat and cold
Each early and late
In darkness and light;

To keep them from marsh,
To keep them from rock,
To keep them from pit,
To keep them from bank…”

from ‘Carmina Gadelica’ number 368, Carmichael , p.339/40.

Officers from Skye Fire and Rescue free a heifer trapped in an old peat bank,  BBC Scotland news.