Summer sonnet

I collected my Dun Coillich summer sonnet print from the Quarto Press last week, ready for sale at the Highland Perthshire Communities Partnership AGM in Kinloch Rannoch last Saturday, and for this unexpectedly summery weather. I’m donating a proportion of the sale price to HPCLT who are on a fundraising and awareness raising mission at the moment. A large part of the ground was planted up with trees a few years ago in an attempt to create native woodland on the hill but the deer have been getting in through a leaky fence and nibbling the trees so at the moment there’s not much sign of anything above the heather. I’ve just been elected as a trustee so I’m trying to do my bit to help, at the moment mostly through selling the print to help raise funds for tree planting and fencing and, hopefully, footpath work. Trish Waite, another trustee, has been putting in lots of effort and energy and has organised a Celebration of Trees for Saturday afternoon on the 31st March in the Lesser Hall, Aberfeldy. It should be a good afternoon celebrating as many tree things as possible: wine, wood engraving and wood cut (my bit), charcoal drawing, stories, baskets, etc. etc. It would be good to blog after the event with pictures but I’m off to Oman early on Sunday morning so I’m pre-empting. Oman may well be the next entry.