The machair, towards West Beach, Isle of Berneray, Outer Hebrides: photo by hazelisles, 11 June 2006
......On the Western Seaboard of South Uist
......Los muertos abren los ojos a los que viven
I found a pigeon's skull on the machair,
All the bones pure white and dry, and chalky,
But perfect,
Without a crack or a flaw anywhere.
At the back, rising out of the beak,
Were domes like bubbles of thin bone,
Almost transparent, where the brains had been
That fixed the tilt of the wings.
Storm surf at Port Nis, Northern Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland: photo by Chris Sharatt, 30 March 2010
Atlantic surf hits shore at Port Nis, Northern Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland: photo by Chris Sharatt, 30 March 2010
Bird skull: C. William Beebe, from The Bird: Its Form and Function, 1906 (image by L. Shyamal, 2 September 2007)
Wing muscles of bird. The supracoracoideus works using a pulley-like system to lift the wing while the pectorals provide the powerful downstroke: image by L. Shyamal, 10 December, 2007, based on J.R. Hincliffe and D. R. Johnson: The Development of the Invertebrate Limb, 1980
Flowering machair, hills of South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland: photo by Tim Niblett, 1995
Hugh MacDiarmid memorial near Langholm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Made of cast iron, in the form of a large open book depicting images from MacDiarmid's writings: photo by R. Matthews, September 2006
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978): Perfect, from The Islands of Scotland, 1939
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