Blue sky, blue sea. A riot of diamond light in biting easterly winds. (View across the Minch to north Trotternish, Skye, Thursday 5/2/26)

One for @lakesstiles.bsky.social who will know exactly where this splendid stile is 😉

A new blog post for an already fast-moving year. Strange weather, wonderful beaches, places and people. Time ticking. Mars and the wonders of the natural world. Happy reading 😊 notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/o...

A new blog post for an already fast-moving year. Strange weather, wonderful beaches, places and people. Time ticking. Mars and the wonders of the natural world. Happy reading 😊 notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/o...

Almost Mars. Beach cobbles of billion year old Torridonian sandstones on the sands of Red Point, Wester Ross, Scotland, Planet Earth.

Some very heart warming & for me emotional responses to #Windswept in letters from readers & practitioners. It's >2yrs since the book was published. To this day, I'm astonished by the original reviews but these recent letters? They are incredible. Thank you. #naturewriting #place #story #nature

Happy Imbolc, happy St.Brigid's Day. It's a day of extraordinary light & I hope both light and joy find their way to you, wherever you are. We're halfway between the Winter Solstice & the Spring Equinox. 📷 Magical Mellon Udrigle looking to the great mountains of Assynt and Coigach.

Sunrise. On the first day of my eighth decade. View (from the attic) upriver to the Torridon mountains 🤗

I loved listening to this! It was especially lovely to hear @nicolawriting.bsky.social's voice speak about her love for her home 🥰

Here's a small distraction from everything awful... peace, calm and solace in the late afternoon sun here in the Highlands. 📷 Red River Croft, our local shore and neighbouring peat bog, South Erradale, Wester Ross, Scotland.

Beinn Eighe from the road home. High summits. Confusions of snow, flusters of cloud. But oh my, the late afternoon light. Wester Ross, Highlands of Scotland.

Wild Women Writers. We will be talking about portals, edgelands, peatbogs & other marginal places. Here's the link for tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wild-women...

With the wonderful @janerushtonart.bsky.social talking, walking, wandering, wondering and enjoying her magical home, this beautiful place.

One of the most awe-inspiring displays I've ever seen - the #NorthernLights just a short while ago. The colours are exactly as we witnessed - vibrant, rich and profound. I am completely overwhelmed and utterly humbled. #AuroraBorealis @stormhour.com

Dear @suzitarrant.bsky.social something VERY special arrived today and I am completely overwhelmed, grateful and thrilled. Will you DM your email address to me please? 💚💚

Ooops - can’t get that link to work. But this one does (I hope): www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...

I've had lovely feedback🙏 about my 2025 review written 4 @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social & lots more Qs about the golden hares on my fridge: caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shadow… The hares were crafted by 2 granddaughters (fascinated by Chloe Dalton's fa#RaisingHarere) who thought we needed more...

I loved this piece. Ice cores, deep time archives and how (for whom) the bell tolls.

The first exchange of letters in this newly minted year with Lochaber crofter, Kirsteen Bell, is published today by @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Happy reading 😊 #naturewriting #letterwriting

I've had lots of requests to see a picture of the Golden Hares crafted by little ones decorating our fridge. They're mentioned in my @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social 2025 review which is based on my scant collection of blogs & other social media 😉 caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shadow… So here they are💛

Wishing you all a very happy, healthy and peaceful New Year. Best wishes from us all on Red River Croft in the NW Highlands of Scotland 😊

An (almost) end of year sensory light and colour morning beach feast with the family. Opinan, Wester Ross, Scotland.

Good morning, world! It's a brand new crofting day 😊 View from the attic to the Torridon mountains, 08.30.

Good morning, world! It's a brand new crofting day 😊 View from the attic to the Torridon mountains, 08.30.

Moon over mountain. View from home to mighty Baosbheinn and a midday moonrise.

Short reading list Local Hero - Making a Scottish Classic - @jonmelville.bsky.social Windswept - Life, Nature & Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands - @annieworsley.bsky.social English Pastoral - James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social Positive Tippings Points - Tim Lenton @gsiexeter.bsky.social

Always an honour and blessing to write for @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Happy reading 😊

Christmas Day sunrise. Have a wonderful day one and all 🥰 View upriver from the croft to the Torridon mountains, 09.30.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas & a happy, healthy New Year. It's chaos here with a house full of excited little ones. Cards are unwritten, there are presents to wrap & food to be prepped, so slightly ahead of schedule, here's a Red River Croft Yuletide dawn specially for you!

Happy midwinter! Solstice blessings! A beautiful, rich & peaceful sunset to mark the end of the shortest day. 📷 were taken from an old post at the top of the Seaweed Road South Erradale. This spot features in my book Windswept. It was here that wildness came to visit & skies danced with magic.

A day of big, bold, boisterous and beautiful squalls. Thundersnow, roaring gusts, hail and eye-watering light. View from the back door across the bog...

The sun went down with a whimper in lines of showers and riddles of light. View from the top of the coast path, South Erradale, over the sea to north Trotternish, Isle of Skye.

After an epic family gathering down south, the long road home. This is the last hill pass, the magical gateway to the west. Loch Maree from the top of Glen Doherty, Wester Ross.

'For years, we have told a story of bogs as unproductive, unattractive; dangerous places of waste, empty landscapes we pass through.' Read an extract from editor @clareshawpoet.bsky.social's contribution to ‘The Book of Bogs' — our December Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/book...

Dreaming.

Winter colours. Torridonian sandstone by the sea.

Beyond Inver croft and the larches... a liquid gold sunset over the Old Man of Storr on Skye. Wester Ross, Highlands of Scotland.

One big squall. Textbook structure and utterly fabulous. It skirted the peat bog and then chased a rainbow with thunder. #stormhour @stormhour.com

The house and the mountain. One was once a home with a hearth and a family, the other, a mountain with forests, scrub and wildlife.

An Arctic blast, a day of heavy snow, a long journey to the dentist. The round trip is 150 miles across wild mountainous country but oh! the compensations. 📷 A Bombay-gin-clear Loch a' Chroisg catching the early morning light.

An Arctic blast, a day of heavy snow, a long journey to the dentist. The round trip is 150 miles across wild mountainous country but oh! the compensations. 📷 A Bombay-gin-clear Loch a' Chroisg catching the early morning light.

Crofting comes to #TheArchers on @bbcsounds.bsky.social I wonder if the writers read #Windswept. If not, they need to!!! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It's #BookWeekScotland a celebration of books & reading. #Windswept still roams the world, promoted mostly by word of mouth. This year's theme is friendship. My wee book is filled with my Highland friends - wildlife & wilderness! So... happy Book Week and happy reading 😊

#Windswept is a must-read & not just for #BookWeekScotland! I 'm fortunate to be in the area for a much needed break & I hear @annieworsley.bsky.social beautiful words as we explore. If you love nature, weather, geology, history & anything 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 or to do with the Highlands, this is a book for you! ❤️

It's #BookWeekScotland a celebration of books & reading. #Windswept still roams the world, promoted mostly by word of mouth. This year's theme is friendship. My wee book is filled with my Highland friends - wildlife & wilderness! So... happy Book Week and happy reading 😊

Finding deep time stories. Flux, flow. A wee burn descending, a mountain towering. A partnership between rock & water. Prehistory remembered in place names & folklore. 📷 Allt Toll a' Mhadaidh pouring from Sgùrr Mòr (Beinn Alligin) into Abhainn Coire Mhic Nòbuil, Torridon mountains, Wester Ross

"Something ancient and purposeful..." Wonderful piece of writing.

Mighty, misty Liathach (1055m) from Glen Torridon, Wester Ross

A wee blog post for November... on rock and time, the standing stones at Calanais, some big boulders closer to home in Wester Ross and the beauty of geology. Happy reading 😊 notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/t...

On rock and time. Latest blog post. Happy reading. #naturewriting notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/t...