Charles Harper @ChaHarper@mastodon.scot
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This is from a journey taken across the Country from the Isle of Skye to Aberdeen. The roads were clear. It’s the county of my birth. I visit rarely. I live on the Island now.

“If once you have slept on an island

You’ll never be quite the same;

You may look as you looked the day before

And go by the same old name…

Oh, you won’t know why, and you can’t say how

Such change upon you came,

But – once you have slept on an island

You’ll never be quite the same!”

The image was taken from the passenger seat of a car in a picturesque winter scene featuring a road bordered by snow and trees covered in hoar frost. The photo was taken in Aberdeenshire in the United Kingdom during this current period of below-freezing temperatures. 
The low winter sun and the white snow provided a bright light. The poetry is taken from ‘If Once You Have Slept on an Island’ by Rachel Field (1894–1942)
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