Seaweed glows intensely green in evening's golden light on the western shore of the Barra in the Outer Hebrides with Beinn Tangabhal in the distance. There's a very special quality to the evening light in the Hebridean summertime and is one of my main reasons for being here. Something about its golden, pinkish glow and the luminosity it imparts to colours on the shore. Like here, the intensely glowing greens of the seaweed leaping out in the last touches of sunlight, the wisp of pinks in the expanse of sky above...
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]]>Great cottage, as close to the sea loch as possible. Kitchen blessed by an Aga but missing a freezer (not even an icebox). Plenty of living room, good views of the loch from most rooms. Next to the road but little traffic,only the sound of the burn