The Learned Pig

Art – Thinking – Nature – Writing

Author: Beatrice Searle

  • Foregathered wi’ the beast

    Foregathered wi’ the beast

    I am standing in a lay-by of the A9, 2 miles north of Brora. I am face to face, for the first time, with a stone that I encountered a photograph of a year earlier, in a book about the wondrous wildlife of Scotland. Paving slabs ascend the bank to a hefty lump of granite…