Light under a bushel
Mar. 23rd, 2023 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustYou can blame larryhammer for this post. He posted a poem about a selkie, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson's The Dancing Seal, which I hadn't met before, and liked. It begins:
Skua Light was also new to me, and I looked it up. There was no trace of any lighthouse of that name, but plenty of lovely photos of seabirds - some of them skuas - posing in front of a variety of lighthouses.
And then there was this: a lighthouse trail, on similar lines to the puffin trail we visited last year, but across the north of Scotland and the Northern Isles. How had I missed this? It had happened in 2021, and we didn't get out much in 2021, but shouldn't I have been seeing pictures? Flickr, what happened to you?
I couldn't find much sign of it on the internet, even looking for it. Here's the website of Wild in Art, who have a portfolio of blank sculptures for your very own trail. They give a web address for the lighthouse trail 'Light the North' but it seems to have been allowed to lapse.
There are some more pictures in the press.
larryhammer for this post. He posted a poem about a selkie, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson's The Dancing Seal, which I hadn't met before, and liked. It begins:When we were building Skua Light —
The first men who had lived a night
Upon that deep-sea Isle —
Skua Light was also new to me, and I looked it up. There was no trace of any lighthouse of that name, but plenty of lovely photos of seabirds - some of them skuas - posing in front of a variety of lighthouses.
And then there was this: a lighthouse trail, on similar lines to the puffin trail we visited last year, but across the north of Scotland and the Northern Isles. How had I missed this? It had happened in 2021, and we didn't get out much in 2021, but shouldn't I have been seeing pictures? Flickr, what happened to you?
I couldn't find much sign of it on the internet, even looking for it. Here's the website of Wild in Art, who have a portfolio of blank sculptures for your very own trail. They give a web address for the lighthouse trail 'Light the North' but it seems to have been allowed to lapse.
There are some more pictures in the press.
