The colors of Orkney: Blue and Green!
Posted: Saturday, 26 May 2007 |
On May 30th I'll celebrate my first year in Orkney. On July 21st I'll celebrate my first year as Erlend's happy farm wife! I've been here long enough to have built up some nice memories and images of Orkney. And I have to confess: every time I think of Orkney I think of the colors blue and green!! Here's why:
Isle o' Rousay
Buckraking silage
Stanes o' Stenness
Outside Dounby, West Mainland
Brough o' Birsay
Aboot hands in Birsay
Isle o' Rousay
Buckraking silage
Stanes o' Stenness
Outside Dounby, West Mainland
Brough o' Birsay
Aboot hands in Birsay
Comments
I usually think of colours as well - but there don't seem to be any pictures here. Also grey (for mist) & white (for snow or waves)
Muness from Fetlar
sorry, no photos here - just an x in every box. Now Moo - really! - the press have explained time and time again - that is not how to vote. one x is all that is required. Spoiled paper = rejected. no vote.
scallowawife from shetland
also no pix seen here in the Great State of Texas. But at least your blog is back! It had disappeared altogether for Days!! I wrote and complained, er I mean reported you missing, to the island blogging people. Glad you are found again!!
Shauna from North tejas
Yay, Michelle, your pics are now visible! I wish you many more years of happiness in Orkney with Erlend.
Jill from EK
Thanks for the lovely photos - what a pretty area. Your cows should be very happy with all that great silage being made!
Noreen from West Aussie
at last we can see the photos worth waiting for!
carol from where its b****y cold!
All the best to you and Erlend.
mjc from NM,USA
Beautiful vista's, beautiful colors and many congratulations on your anniversaries! Wish you and Erland many lovely years of the same.
macQ from NMtoo, USA
All I see all day is concrete and steel and the hazy little dots of colour as the cars go by. Boy do these pictures make me pine for home.Marvellous just marvellous.pleas explain "buckraking" frodo
frodo the scot from utica michigan
"Buckraking" is when trailers of fresh-cut grass are dumped in the silage pit and the man on the tractor with the buckrake (in this photey it's mounted on the rear) piles the grass in the pit and keeps it even and tidy!
Michelle Therese from Moooo!
Congratulations on a year completed. Nicely done.
Randall from randallfriesen.com
Belated 'Happy Anniversareeee!!!'
Flying Cat from ancient music compendium
Oh - we celebrate our anniversary on July 21st!
Michelle Therese from Mainland Orkney
My farm wife and I plan to have a small diversified, sustainable farm here. We enjoyed your pictures. Orkney is beautiful! We plan to loose hay and stack it in a shelter that also serves as winter feeding area. I will make a tractor buckrake of wood a little like horse drawn ones. A second scaled down buckrake will be used for green manure crops cut with flail mower and sent to the compost bins. We are calling this one a "buckaroo." May your life on the Orkneys continue to bring much joy.
Ed from Northern New Mexico, US
So...I traded my quiet cabin in the Alaskan woods for the howling winds of Orkney and life on a farm. 
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