Easter this year was, appropriately, all about the animals. I went home to my parents’ place in northern Scotland, which is surrounded by forest and field. Pretty much any time of the day or night you can see or hear wild animals and farm animals outside. The kitchen window is rather like a cinema screen [...]
The trip has become a trip. Initial wonderment has been replaced by a strange mixture of emotions. There are long periods of driving, through sometimes extremely beautiful and sometimes quite monotonous terrain. There is so much of everything in California – millions of redwood trees, endless miles of sun-bleached grass, vineyard upon vineyard, closer to [...]