On the beach at Torrin

Now here is a place to stop and unwind under the April-blue sky.  The daffodils sway like buttery flags in the breeze that skims over the snow-capped mountains.  Beneath the daffodils, tiny celandine tell their own story, reflecting their brightness from their small, yellow discs.  Meanwhile the rabbits squeak playfully in the adjacent fields.  I …

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Walking in the shoes of dinosaurs

As soon as I heard about a new discovery of dinosaur tracks on the Isle of Skye, I felt a surge of excitement. Scientists had unearthed a site where meat-eating sauropods and theropods once roamed.  They had left their footprints on the soft lagoon mud 170 million years ago when the island was part of …

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