In late June I took a cruise through the Scottish Islands. It was an amazing experience. On the Isle of Lewis I got to stand on the oldest rocks in the British Isles. (Last year, on a tour behind the scenes at the Oxford Natural History Museum I held some of the oldest rock on Earth [the Acosta Gneiss from Canada] in one hand and the oldest sedimentary rock [the Isua Supercrustals Group from Greenland] in the other at the same time). Later I visited the Neolithic site at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, and marvelled at the Stone Age dwellings. The people then, I concluded, had wanted the same things in life as ourselves -- to the warm, loved and fed).
While leaving Lewis I had the chance to make this quick watercolour painting of the scene. It was small, being little bigger than a postcard. I hope you like it.
Free For All on Friday