Merry (insert favourite festival) to you all!
Written by John MacphersonGreetings fellow travellers. May the coming year be a good one for you and your families.
Nature’s tree decorations in our community woodland! This lovely garland of snow happened after a very serious frost that followed a snowfall, culminating in a thaw that saw the snow drooping off the branches.
Snow business. © John MacPherson
And here is a festive message to all of you from the woods. It was left on the woodland floor after the last serious storm. Mind you its in hieroglyphs, so you can each read into it whatever lovely sentiments you wish. You may not ever do much for trees, but they just keep on doing stuff for us.
Woodland floor. © John MacPherson
Author — John Macpherson
John MacPherson was born and lives in the Scottish Highlands. He trained as a welder in the Glasgow shipyards, before completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter, and then qualified as a Social Worker in Disability Services. Along the way he has cooked on canal barges, trained as an Alpine Ski Leader & worked as an Instructor for Skiers with disabilities, been a canoe instructor, and tutor of night classes in carpentry, stained glass design and manufacture, and archery. He has travelled extensively on various continents, undertaking solo trips by bicycle, or motorcycle. He has had narrow escapes from an ambush by terrorists, been hit by lightning, caught in an erupting volcano, trapped in a mobile home by a tornado, kidnapped by a dog's hairdresser, rammed by a basking shark and was once bitten by a wild otter. He has combined all this with professional photography, which he has practised for over 35 years. He teaches photography and acts as a photography guide & tutor in the UK and abroad. His biggest challenge is keeping his 30 year old Land Rover 110 on the road. He loves telling and hearing stories.