A garden by the sea

    The garden at Dunrobin, looking down from the terrace.

    The air in this part of Scotland is so clean that lichen grows at a pace - here's a close-up of a branch of that quince tree:

 

    Searching for family graves across the Firth in Portmahomack proved fruitless - even with the help of the churchyard records - as the lichen had rendered all the headstones illegible.

    The Discovery Centre is well worth a visit, though.