We drove northwest towards Rogart yesterday in bright autumn sunshine and temperatures which, by early afternoon, touched 16C, to visit Farlary Croft 43 where the farmer has created....
....a network of walks for people to enjoy. We admire what he has achieved - this map by the entrance to the walks is a new addition - and grateful for the open access. It may be that some of the funds have come from....
....some of the wind turbines of the Kilbraur wind farm which are on his land. None of the turbines was working when we arrived in what should have been perfect conditions but they must have been switched off as, minutes after this picture was taken, they all started to turn.
The immediate area around the croft is a bleak moorland landscape, not dominated by higher hills but more like a dissected plateau, across which the modern industrial landscape marches. Almost everywhere one goes on the croft one can....
....see the spindly turbine structures or hear the gentle whoosh of their blades.
Much of the croft's land is now down to trees, the impact of the plantations broken by open spaces which offer....
....distant views towards the wilder parts of Sutherland. It's as if this is at the limits of human domination, asserted by the wind farm, and beyond lies true wilderness.
The plantations include both deciduous and coniferous woodland with the trails snaking through them, and with....
....some conveniently placed picnic tables from which one of us could admire the view while the other explored the wealth of fungi under the spruce trees - there were no fewer than eight species within ten metre of the table.
There is a cottage to rent on the croft - link here.
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