Early Morning Walk

I was out early again this bright frosty morning with the precise goal of capturing the ancient Dunkeld larches planted 200 years ago by the ‘plant lairds’ of Perthshire. They owned the estates and created the marvellous woodland landscape. However, there have been trees at Dunkeld since the first human settlement as the name comes from Gaelic for the 'fort of the wood'.

I had taken shots of the old larches with their autumn mantles when along came a chap pushing a buggy down the estate drive. The mist caught in the sun's rays was swirling around the distant trees. On the left was the feathery tracery of orange larch foliage, and on the right a frosted larch partially illuminated. This had to be the today's blip with the darkly clad human figure completing the pleasing composition on the curving road.