“This smooth stone between my fourth and middle fingers hangs above the board, divines the perfect shape, swoops onto the chosen cross. It clicks, quivers, lost in a fresh landscape of white and black.” John Latham (1986) #photography #go #boardgame #stone #poetry #Lathan #PotD #Macro #game

“. . . And of course it rained, the way it’s doing as I skitter up the cleated iron of the gangway at Fionnphort; Iona, an indecipherable blur, a slosh of boots and oilskins, once landed on, is even wetter." Amy Clampitt (1987) #photography #Fionnphort #Mull #poetry #PotD #Scotland

“There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you find always in that the true artist captures." Frank Herbert (1965) #photography #art #patterns #DiscoveredArt #Dune #FrankHerbert #stems #shadows #NaturesCanvas #PotD

“Mosses do not hurry, but instead settle into a place and make it their own. They create a world where little things thrive, a lush green universe scaled to beetles and ants.” Robin Kimmerer (2003) #photography #moss #lichen #QuoteOfTheDay #IsleOfIona #MacroPhotography #NaturePhotography

GULL "We are the dawn marauders. We prey on pizza. We kill kebabs. We mug thrushes for bread crusts with a snap of our big bent beaks." Brian McCabe (1998) #photography #gulls #seagull #silhouette #statue #BirdPhotography #poetry #BrianMcCabe #PotD

"THREE BOATS The boat of the past sailed To reach the Golden Shore. The boat of the present sails To see the Face of God. The boat of the future shall sail To become the Heart of God.” Sri Chinmoy (1974) #photography #Oban #boats #Scotland #saltire #poetry #Chinmoy #trawlers #harbour #WestCoast

“What are you, speckled egg-shaped stone? You cannot speak, you cannot see You cannot hear, but can you think? For you seem blessed with a life of your own.” James Reaney (1964) #photography #light #shadow #egg #stone #poetry #Reaney #black #white #PotD #IonaAbbey

“There is a holiness in this cool mist Rising like Latin plainsong from a choir Towards the tips of Gothic lancet windows To dispense, with silken vapor-breath, The gentle benediction of the rain.” Joseph S. Salemi (2024) #photography #architecture #poetry #Salemi #PotD #gothic #abbey #window

"And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.” John Masefield (1917) #photography #boat #sea #sheep #SoundOfIona #IsleOfIona #Iona #poetry #JohnMasefield #Highlands #Scotland #Hebrides #seagulls #PotD

“the sunrise glazed the barnyard mud with red the burning puddles seemed to reassure. And then he thought he almost might endure his exile yet another year or more.” Elizabeth Bishop (1950) #photography #puddles #patterns #slabs #poetry #ElizabethBishop #PotD #discoveredart #light #reflection

"Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air. Nobody sees us, Stops us, betrays us; The small grains make room." Sylvia Plath (1959) #photography #mushrooms #nature #autumn #grass #poetry #SylviaPlath #PotD

"...though you may catch glimpses of it, now and then. A fleeting flash of glitter, antlers of gold that snare the sun." Srinjay Chakravarti (2020) #photography #deer #stag #antlers #sculpture #poetry #Chakravarti #palace #Westminster #London #PotD

“The pavements glitter, the black umbrellas bloom, The buses loom like planets in the mist, And the clock on the Parliament tower Strikes the hour with a hollow sound Over the traffic and the crowd.” Louis MacNeice (1939) #photograph #BigBen #London #clock #tower #poetry #MacNeice #war #PotD

"There once was a Collie named Clyde, Who pedalled with Collie-born pride. But the handlebars spun, And his journey was done— Now he naps where the buttercups hide." Anon #photography #bike #collie #dog #accident #grass #limerick #PotD

"These words it added: 'Wherefore tear'st me thus? Is there no touch of mercy in thy breast? Men once were we, that now are rooted here.' " Dante Alighieri (1320) #photography #wood #tree #carvings #poetry #Dante #inferno #Knaresborough #Craggs #PofD #nature #sculpture #art

“See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design!” Tennyson (1855) #photography #shells #beach #seaweed #poetry #Tennyson #art #composition #PotD

"The cat, only the cat appeared complete and proud: he was born completely finished, walking alone and knowing what he wanted." Pablo Neruda (1959) #photography #PotD #cat #IsleOfIona #StColumbaHotel #Abbey #gardens #poetry #Neruda #Scotland #island

"Art is a mirror held up to nature" William Shakespeare #photography #mirror #illusion #art #Scotland #LochEarn #StFillans #PerthKinross #Mullholland #loch #PhotoOfTheDay

"And as for the duck, I think God must have smiled a bit Seeing those bright eyes blink on the day He fashioned it. And he's probably laughing still at the sound that came out of its bill!" F.W.Harvey (1919) #photography #ducks #poetry #FWHarvey #nature #river #grass #PhotoOfTheDay

"But still I see through rifted haze The wizard tower and portico That flashed one instant, white and whist, A grace too exquisite to keep, A picture springing from the mist As a dream comes shining out of sleep." Katharine Bates (1918) #photography #MayIsle #Forth #lighthouse #fog #mist #haar

"You could lean a hand against the dressed blocks, feel their centuries settled in the grain, while the glass takes the sky whole and lets it fall back on you." Anon #Photography #church #architecture #reflection #glass #stone #new #old #clash #PhotoOfTheDay #sky #mirror

"Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships, and the thick-stem'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd. I too saw the reflection of the summer sky in the water, Had my eyes dazzled by the shimmering track of beams" Walt Whitman (1856) #photography #Anstruther #poetry #Whitman #harbour #masts

"Desolate is the crow’s puckered cry As an old woman’s mouth When the eyelids have finished And the hills continue. A cry Wordless As the newborn baby’s grieving On the steely scales." Ted Hughes (1972) #photography #crow #poetry #Hughes #bird #nature #PhotoOfTheDay #black #Corvidae

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“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel.” Kahlil Gibran (1923) #photography #Romani #wagon #poetry #Gibran #PhotoOfTheDay #wanderer #traveller #nomad

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colours, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." Rainer Maria Rilke (1905) #photography #flowers #azalea #nature #poetry #Rilke #PhotoOfTheDay #blooms #colours

"This morning's flowers and flowers of yesterday Their fragrance drifts across the room at dawn, Fragrance of bloom and fragrance of decay, Fresh flowers, withered flowers, flowers of dawn." T.S. Eliot (1908) #photography #flowers #Falkland #Fife #Lomond #tavern #poetry #TSEliot #PhotoOfTheDay

l(a le af fa ll s) one l iness e e cummings (1958) #photography #autumn #leaf #poetry #Cummings #PhotoOfTheDay #loneliness #fall

"this boat leaning on the rocks, rotted through, its ribs flaked like sponge, the paint chipped, faded. These rocks have grown used to the weight. It gives them something to do besides hug the mud and wait for water." Brian Henry (1997) #photography #Scotland #Mull #poetry #Henry #PhotoOfTheDay

“A million conversations And a million ten-pence pieces May have passed across that door. Disused, forgotten and now broken, Will it ever be repaired?” Bryan Wallace (2017) #photography #telephone #box #forest #poetry #Wallace #communication #UrbanNature #RedTelephoneBox #IconicDesign

"The box was ancient, was George the Fifth And hadn’t been used for years, But stood in a lane that time forgot When the rot set in, and worse." David Lewis Paget (2013) #photography #TelephoneBox #NaturePhotography #HiddenGems #countryside #escape #ScenicRoute #poetry #Paget #Box #phone

"Than Adriane wyth hys cumpany Togydder come tyl Caplawchy. Thare sum in to the lie off May Chesyd to byde to thare enday. And sum off thame chesyd be northe In steddis sere the Wattyr off Forth" (Wyntoun c. 1420) #photography #IsleOfMay #Forth #Scotland #Scots #Chronicle #Island #Priory

"Thistles spike the summer air And crackle open under a blue-black pressure. Every one a revengeful burst Of resurrection, a grasped fistful Of splintered weapons and Icelandic frost thrust up" Ted Hughes (1970) #photography #thistles #Scotland #poetry #TedHughes #nature #PlantPhotography

"Damp smell the ferns in tunnels of stone, Where trickle and plash the fountains, Marble fountains, yellowed with much water." Amy Lowell (1914) #photography #nature #ferns #rocks #plants #poetry #Lowell #PhotoOfTheDay

"The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. 'Come all to church, good people,'— Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come." A.E.Housman （1896) #photography #steeple #silhouette #poetry #Housman #sky #church #skyline #PhotoOfTheDay

"And daily from her casement high The opium drops did flow. Till on a shelf stood fifty Empty bottles in a row! Upon that grim and ghastly row The lady’s maid did gaze; The footman to their hollowness A wondering glance did raise;" Thomas Bailey (1835) #photography #poetry #bottles #Penrith

"... these frail snow-drops that together cling, And nod their helmets, smitten by the wing Of many a furious whirl-blast sweeping by." Wordsworth (1820) #photography #snowdrops #poetry #Wordsworth #NaturePhotography #Flowers #woods #survival #PhotoOfTheDay

"But when thou dost anneal in glasse thy storie, Making thy life to shine within The holy Preachers; then the light and glorie More rev’rend grows, & more doth win: Which else shows watrish, bleak, & thin." George Herbert (1633) #photography #StainedGlass #Poetry #Herbert #PhotoOfTheDay

“All day the snow sets its table with clean linen, putting its house in order. The hungry deer walk on the risen loaves of snow. You can follow the broken hearts their hooves punch in its crust.” Nancy Willard (2004) #photography #deer #snow #antlers #Scotland #Glencoe #poetry #Willard

"THE VERDANT ivy clings around Yon moss be-mantled wall, As if it sought to hide the stones, That crumbling soon must fall: That relic of a bygone age Now tottering to decay, Has but one friend—the ivy—left. The rest have passed away." Henry Kendall (19thC) #photography #poetry

“Upon a lonely bridge, in solemn state, I stood and viewed the silent river glide— Untroubled stream! whose gray and voiceless tide Beneath the moon’s soft beam seemed still to wait.” William Wordsworth (1798) #photography #bridge #wooden #gate #landscape #poetry #Wordsworth #PhotoOfTheDay

"Upon the heid o’ stane sae braw, A seagull sits, wi’ sicht sae blaw, Its feathery plumes in wind sae hie, A wee bit king o’ earth an’ sky." anon. #photography #seagull #Burns #statue #church #GreyfriarsChurch #Dumfries #Scotland #poetry #PhotoOfTheDay

“To walk on water? That’s what’s puzzling— that feat of antimatter, defeat of physics, those beautiful unshod feet of cosmic truth for whom the whole performance is child’s play.” Mark Jarman (2017) #photography #illusion #water #WalkingOnWater #Kirkcudbright #Solway #poetry #Jarman

“Monastic limestone skeleton, threadbare with simple love of life, speak out your dead language of stone…” Peter Levi (1968) #photography #abbey #ruins #poetry #PeterLevi #SweetheartAbbey #NewAbbey #Dumfries #Galloway #Scotland #architecture #arches #PhotoOfTheDay

Tree: “I chose this valley… stretching my roots under your scored foundations.” Wall: “I belong here.” T: “I host the resurrection of each turning season.” W: “I endure.” T: “You’re the one they blame… insensate barrier, stone-deaf to the rough bark of liberty.” W: “You cannot know.” Zoe Mitchell

"A drystane dyke’s no proud. A drystane dyke’s no prink. A drystane dyke hauds aa sorts. Winds o aa airts breathe throu it, but nane steers it. Baith sides are equal and aa Jock Tamson’s bairns can add their stanes tae it." Robert Duncan (2020) #photography #wall #Scotland #Scots #poetry #Duncan

"The train stood. And the platform was deserted. A single leaf was skittering in the wind. I looked at the station clock and couldn't tell the time. The silence was so great, it was like the earth had stopped." Charles Simic (1990) #photography #train #station #platform #reflection #Simic

"We were amongst the rhododendrons. There was something bewildering, even shocking, about the suddenness of their discovery. The woods had not prepared me for them. They startled me with their crimson faces, massed one upon the other in incredible profusion." Daphne du Maurier (1938) #photography

"In the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured." — Hermann Hesse (1920) #photography #tree #rings #nature #Hesse

"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture a fleeting reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy." Henri Cartier-Bresson (1952) #photography #sunset #landscape #Lake #Malawi #reflection #silhouette