27/100 - Lift from us the curse of time (11:Thirty-third Stone)

One of fifteen digital prints (from a series of thirty-one) made in 2004 in response to George Mackay Brown’s  ‘Brodgar Poems’ which celebrates the building of the Ring of Brodgar, in Stenness, Orkney.

These originally appeared at the ‘Poetry, place and time’ exhibition in the Orkney Gallery.

(I’m on holiday from day 21 until day 35 (25th July-8th August)

26/100 - Rollers, oxen, rope (10:Fortysecond stone)

One of fifteen digital prints (from a series of thirty-one) made in 2004 in response to George Mackay Brown’s  ‘Brodgar Poems’ which celebrates the building of the Ring of Brodgar, in Stenness, Orkney.

These originally appeared at the ‘Poetry, place and time’ exhibition in the Orkney Gallery.

(I’m on holiday from day 21 until day 35 (25th July-8th August)

25/100 - Between cornstalk and fish (08:Fortieth stone)

One of fifteen digital prints (from a series of thirty-one) made in 2004 in response to George Mackay Brown’s  ‘Brodgar Poems’ which celebrates the building of the Ring of Brodgar, in Stenness, Orkney.

These originally appeared at the ‘Poetry, place and time’ exhibition in the Orkney Gallery.

(I’m on holiday from day 21 until day 35 (25th July-8th August)

24/100 - Stone waits, half hewn (07 :Fiftieth stone)

One of fifteen digital prints (from a series of thirty-one) made in 2004 in response to George Mackay Brown’s  ‘Brodgar Poems’ which celebrates the building of the Ring of Brodgar, in Stenness, Orkney.

These originally appeared at the ‘Poetry, place and time’ exhibition in the Orkney Gallery.

(I’m on holiday from day 21 until day 35 (25th July-8th August)

George Mackay Brown, Brodgar Poems, Orkney, 100 days of summer

23/100 - broke from the cloud (06:Forty-fifth stone)

One of fifteen digital prints (from a series of thirty-one) made in 2004 in response to George Mackay Brown’s  ‘Brodgar Poems’ which celebrates the building of the Ring of Brodgar, in Stenness, Orkney.

These originally appeared at the ‘Poetry, place and time’ exhibition in the Orkney Gallery.

(I’m on holiday from day 21 until day 35 (25th July-8th August)

22/100 - and the circle not closed (04 :The Fiftieth Stone: Plague and Pillage)

One of fifteen digital prints (from a series of thirty-one) made in 2004 in response to George Mackay Brown’s  ‘Brodgar Poems’ which celebrates the building of the Ring of Brodgar, in Stenness, Orkney.

These originally appeared at the ‘Poetry, place and time’ exhibition in the Orkney Gallery.

(I’m on holiday from day 21 until day 35 (25th July-8th August)

21/100 - Release us, stone (02: Thirty-seventh stone)

One of fifteen digital prints (from a series of thirty-one) made in 2004 in response to George Mackay Brown’s  ‘Brodgar Poems’ which celebrates the building of the Ring of Brodgar, in Stenness, Orkney.   

These originally appeared at the ‘Poetry, place and time’ exhibition in the Orkney Gallery.

(I’m on holiday from day 21 until day 35 (25th July-8th August)

20/100 - A random, ribald song

From a pub door here and there

A random, ribald song

Leaks on the air

[from ‘The lodging’, George Mackay Brown, from 'Selected Poems 1954-1992']

off-topic because I am on holiday (currently Manchester airport)

19/100 - No star shines there

The blackness is as solid as a

stone that locks a tomb

No star shines there

[from Maeshowe midwinter, George Mackay Brown Following a lark]