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Joe Gray

This post is part of a series titled ‘Beneath the birch and pine’, whose uniting theme—beyond the writer’s nature-centred standpoint—is the inspiration that each piece finds in some aspect of life in the Scottish Highlands. For an associated photography project, which is called ‘The Cairngorms Up-Close’, please head here.

It is early autumn, and I am spending the night in woodland on the edge of Loch Tay—a slender S...