On the one hand, Shetland's lichens are genuinely magnificent (I took photographs of them myself)
That is serious lichen. Nice.
Skekklers - wonderful photograph! go look! - are guisers, and wear a costume made of straw.
I think the first I ever heard of guisers—or at least my first encounter with the term—was in Mollie Hunter's A Stranger Came Ashore (1975), whose climax takes place among the guising for Up Helly Aa.
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Date: 2009-04-10 12:10 am (UTC)That is serious lichen. Nice.
Skekklers - wonderful photograph! go look! - are guisers, and wear a costume made of straw.
I think the first I ever heard of guisers—or at least my first encounter with the term—was in Mollie Hunter's A Stranger Came Ashore (1975), whose climax takes place among the guising for Up Helly Aa.