The Machair

It is beautiful outside today. The sun is shining, the breeze is soft and you can smell Spring in the air. I even saw a lamb.

Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of the lamb, but I do have some photos of the machair. And some of the beach, but I'll keep them for later. 

A quick geography lesson. The machair is the expanse of land between the village crofts and the beach. It's sandy soil, but it grows plenty of grass and anyone with a croft in the village can put their animals on it to graze. It's home to plenty of game (well, a gazzilion rabbits), and I like it.

That's the lower part of the machair.

The stone.... thing is a fank. Lotsa gates and fences and walls for sorting/holding the sheep

The fence between the upper machair of my village and the next village's machair

 Muran grass (marram in English) grass. It covers a good area of the machair.

In the spring and summer, the machair is covered in a blanket of yellow and pink and red and purple flowers, but at this time of year, it's green. And kinda brown, with some straw-y yellow thrown in.  


I'm so glad I don't live in a city, far from open spaces and greenery. I love this island!