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I loved these images and the conversation--makes me hungry to spend time in Orkney. 💜 And my favorite time of the year is when the terns arrive for the summer here--what magnificent creatures.

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I always cheer when the terns arrive. They made it through one more year, one more circuit of the globe. I was thinking I'd do a sound recording when they are here, and share it (if I can escape the wind rumble!)

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that would be very cool to hear. maybe i’ll try the same this summer and we can compare notes! 💜

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Mar 6Liked by Samantha Clark

"That creation, chaos, the sheer energy! " "Those Incredibly long wings. It's quite extraordinary!"

Windows to a wonderful person. She certainly seems in the right place at the right time for her. She and you seem to be not so much on that island but of it..sharing the quiet and wild spirit of it. As Neil Barker does his place in Canada. As does Chris, his place in the desert... Neil has his "seed tax"in his forest. If she ever wants to make a chum of dark Nuckelavee she need only build a small cairn of rocks on a headland and place some of those small flowers near and one of her small laminated photos under (she'll know which and how). It's a simple thing actually but quite powerful!

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Top tip Michael...but I think I'd rather keep my distance from Nuckelavee! I find it really interesting that a lot of traditional folklore leaves us with feelings of ambivalence and threat about the power of the sea. A bit of an old wooden shipwreck has just been uncovered by winter storms here, amidst much speculation about its possible age (some think it might be as old as 16th C). But it's a reminder that what the sea gives, the sea takes away...

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Wonderful reply. I've grown a bit shamanistic in my dotage I fear! 🙂 Wild places bring it out in me.

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Spellbinding photographs. Thanks for showing them to us, Sam. Nicki has a great eye.

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