Margaret R Kelly

Tag: nature

  • Over the Sea to Skye

    Over the Sea to Skye

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    Margaret Kelly
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    It’s November and late autumn in Scotland. My brother and I are on a ‘Family Heritage Tour’ —a kind of pilgrimage— to the stomping ground of some of our ancestors—the Macleods of Dunvegan and Talisker on the Hebridean island of Skye, a popular holiday and tourist destination in summer. The tempestuous Atlantic crashes against Skye’s…

  • HASTE YE BACK: ISLE OF COLL, SCOTLAND

    HASTE YE BACK: ISLE OF COLL, SCOTLAND

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    Margaret Kelly
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    Scotland’s a land of monumental mountains and misty glens, castles with hidden stories, drams of whisky straight from the source, men in kilts, kelpies, selkies and Fay folk. It’s a mystical, time-shrouded lodestone which entices for many reasons, but the strongest for me is that my roots are tangled deeply in its rockiest, most wind-lashed soil:  the…