Nature’s silver lining
The affinity you have with the things that surround you during your formative years is one of the constants in life. One of those for me, among many, is a rather lovely tree, the silver birch (Betula pendula).
The glen in which I spent those years was full of birch, semi-natural stands of them with sheep and cattle grazing below. Up the hill, by the burns, or streams as they are
