“October is the coloured month,” Nan Shepherd wrote in The Living Mountain her now-celebrated account of her relationship with the Cairngorm range of Scotland. Here, …
Category: Landscape and Nature
Posted on 14th October, 2020
Two-Book Deal For Merryn Glover’s Cairngorms
Friends and faithful readers of Writing the Way, I cannot tell you how happy I am to share this news with you. Below is today’s …
Posted on 28th September, 2020
Loch Insh Osprey
The ospreys have gone. I went away for a week and when I got back, the strath had slipped into autumn and the eyrie above …
Posted on 24th August, 2020
Loch Etchachan & Ben MacDui: A Cairngorms Photo Story
Living by the Spey, most of my walks into the Cairngorms are from the north-western side, such as the one to Angel’s Peak last year. …
Posted on 29th June, 2020
A Sense of Place
What happens when we pay close attention to nature? A Sense of Place, about my residency with the Cairngorms National Park, first appeared in the 2020 Summer …
Posted on 16th May, 2020
The High Tongue
It’s the Cairngorms Nature at Home Big 10 Days! This WAS going to be the Cairngorms Nature Big Weekend and I WAS going to be …
Posted on 16th May, 2020
The High Tongue
It’s the Cairngorms Nature at Home Big 10 Days! This WAS going to be the Cairngorms Nature Big Weekend and I WAS going to be …
Posted on 28th April, 2020
Map Gazing
Do you love maps? I find them fascinating, so when I was invited by Walk Highlands to write an article about what to do when …
Posted on 21st March, 2020
Return to Fishtail Mountain
My head is still in the Himalayas. Two weeks ago, I shared about my childhood in Ghachok, a village in the mountains of Nepal which …