Annie Worsley
@annieworsley.bsky.social
Writer Crofter Grandmother
Red River Croft Wester Ross
Landscape Nature Environment
#WINDSWEPT: Life Nature & Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands (out now)
FRAGMENTS (2026)
#naturewriting #landscapephotography
https://www.annieworsley.co.uk/
Red River Croft Wester Ross
Landscape Nature Environment
#WINDSWEPT: Life Nature & Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands (out now)
FRAGMENTS (2026)
#naturewriting #landscapephotography
https://www.annieworsley.co.uk/
One big squall. Textbook structure and utterly fabulous. It skirted the peat bog and then chased a rainbow with thunder.
#stormhour @stormhour.com
#stormhour @stormhour.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
One big squall. Textbook structure and utterly fabulous. It skirted the peat bog and then chased a rainbow with thunder.
#stormhour @stormhour.com
#stormhour @stormhour.com
Yes, for sure. Here's An Teallach taken from the Fain (Destitution Road) the following day.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Yes, for sure. Here's An Teallach taken from the Fain (Destitution Road) the following day.
The house and the mountain.
One was once a home with a hearth and a family, the other, a mountain with forests, scrub and wildlife.
One was once a home with a hearth and a family, the other, a mountain with forests, scrub and wildlife.
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The house and the mountain.
One was once a home with a hearth and a family, the other, a mountain with forests, scrub and wildlife.
One was once a home with a hearth and a family, the other, a mountain with forests, scrub and wildlife.
An Arctic blast, a day of heavy snow, a long journey to the dentist. The round trip is 150 miles across wild mountainous country but oh! the compensations.
📷 A Bombay-gin-clear Loch a' Chroisg catching the early morning light.
📷 A Bombay-gin-clear Loch a' Chroisg catching the early morning light.
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
An Arctic blast, a day of heavy snow, a long journey to the dentist. The round trip is 150 miles across wild mountainous country but oh! the compensations.
📷 A Bombay-gin-clear Loch a' Chroisg catching the early morning light.
📷 A Bombay-gin-clear Loch a' Chroisg catching the early morning light.
It's #BookWeekScotland a celebration of books & reading. #Windswept still roams the world, promoted mostly by word of mouth. This year's theme is friendship. My wee book is filled with my Highland friends - wildlife & wilderness!
So... happy Book Week and happy reading 😊
So... happy Book Week and happy reading 😊
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
It's #BookWeekScotland a celebration of books & reading. #Windswept still roams the world, promoted mostly by word of mouth. This year's theme is friendship. My wee book is filled with my Highland friends - wildlife & wilderness!
So... happy Book Week and happy reading 😊
So... happy Book Week and happy reading 😊
Finding deep time stories. Flux, flow. A wee burn descending, a mountain towering. A partnership between rock & water. Prehistory remembered in place names & folklore.
📷 Allt Toll a' Mhadaidh pouring from Sgùrr Mòr (Beinn Alligin) into Abhainn Coire Mhic Nòbuil, Torridon mountains, Wester Ross
📷 Allt Toll a' Mhadaidh pouring from Sgùrr Mòr (Beinn Alligin) into Abhainn Coire Mhic Nòbuil, Torridon mountains, Wester Ross
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Finding deep time stories. Flux, flow. A wee burn descending, a mountain towering. A partnership between rock & water. Prehistory remembered in place names & folklore.
📷 Allt Toll a' Mhadaidh pouring from Sgùrr Mòr (Beinn Alligin) into Abhainn Coire Mhic Nòbuil, Torridon mountains, Wester Ross
📷 Allt Toll a' Mhadaidh pouring from Sgùrr Mòr (Beinn Alligin) into Abhainn Coire Mhic Nòbuil, Torridon mountains, Wester Ross
Mighty, misty Liathach (1055m) from Glen Torridon, Wester Ross
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Mighty, misty Liathach (1055m) from Glen Torridon, Wester Ross
A wee blog post for November... on rock and time, the standing stones at Calanais, some big boulders closer to home in Wester Ross and the beauty of geology.
Happy reading 😊
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Happy reading 😊
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November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
A wee blog post for November... on rock and time, the standing stones at Calanais, some big boulders closer to home in Wester Ross and the beauty of geology.
Happy reading 😊
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Happy reading 😊
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A squall after sunset.
November 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A squall after sunset.
Good morning.
Red sky warning.
Praying for peace everywhere.
View from home to the Torridon mountains, Wester Ross.
Red sky warning.
Praying for peace everywhere.
View from home to the Torridon mountains, Wester Ross.
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Good morning.
Red sky warning.
Praying for peace everywhere.
View from home to the Torridon mountains, Wester Ross.
Red sky warning.
Praying for peace everywhere.
View from home to the Torridon mountains, Wester Ross.
"The North wind doth blow
And we shall have snow..."
First glimpse of winter on Beinn Alligin (Torridon mountains).
View from South Erradale ❄️
And we shall have snow..."
First glimpse of winter on Beinn Alligin (Torridon mountains).
View from South Erradale ❄️
October 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"The North wind doth blow
And we shall have snow..."
First glimpse of winter on Beinn Alligin (Torridon mountains).
View from South Erradale ❄️
And we shall have snow..."
First glimpse of winter on Beinn Alligin (Torridon mountains).
View from South Erradale ❄️
Late afternoon, yesterday.
I followed the sun. Oystercatchers called, a salted cold breeze riddled the meadows. From the top field I saw a swoop of starlings, a turquoise sea, a mother-of-pearl sky, islands of gauze.
My heart was full.
View across Red River Croft and Inner Sound to Skye
I followed the sun. Oystercatchers called, a salted cold breeze riddled the meadows. From the top field I saw a swoop of starlings, a turquoise sea, a mother-of-pearl sky, islands of gauze.
My heart was full.
View across Red River Croft and Inner Sound to Skye
October 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Late afternoon, yesterday.
I followed the sun. Oystercatchers called, a salted cold breeze riddled the meadows. From the top field I saw a swoop of starlings, a turquoise sea, a mother-of-pearl sky, islands of gauze.
My heart was full.
View across Red River Croft and Inner Sound to Skye
I followed the sun. Oystercatchers called, a salted cold breeze riddled the meadows. From the top field I saw a swoop of starlings, a turquoise sea, a mother-of-pearl sky, islands of gauze.
My heart was full.
View across Red River Croft and Inner Sound to Skye
A quiet weather day the forecaster said.
Ha! I was blown about and blasted with salt and grit and drenched in rainbows.
But my shadow-self looks long and lithe 😉
Ha! I was blown about and blasted with salt and grit and drenched in rainbows.
But my shadow-self looks long and lithe 😉
October 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A quiet weather day the forecaster said.
Ha! I was blown about and blasted with salt and grit and drenched in rainbows.
But my shadow-self looks long and lithe 😉
Ha! I was blown about and blasted with salt and grit and drenched in rainbows.
But my shadow-self looks long and lithe 😉
Hello nature chums. Does anyone have any idea what this is?
It is a white jelly substance so perhaps a fungus or mould of some sort? There are also smaller dollops of black goo with white nodules alongside the jellies and a few nodules in the white jelly.
Thank you 😊
It is a white jelly substance so perhaps a fungus or mould of some sort? There are also smaller dollops of black goo with white nodules alongside the jellies and a few nodules in the white jelly.
Thank you 😊
October 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Hello nature chums. Does anyone have any idea what this is?
It is a white jelly substance so perhaps a fungus or mould of some sort? There are also smaller dollops of black goo with white nodules alongside the jellies and a few nodules in the white jelly.
Thank you 😊
It is a white jelly substance so perhaps a fungus or mould of some sort? There are also smaller dollops of black goo with white nodules alongside the jellies and a few nodules in the white jelly.
Thank you 😊
Dug out two (old) watercolour paintings of two (very different) storms over the moors and blanket bogs of the Pennines.
For interest... maybe to readers of The Book of Bogs and other peaty works.
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
@jensoilandpen.bsky.social
For interest... maybe to readers of The Book of Bogs and other peaty works.
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
@jensoilandpen.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Dug out two (old) watercolour paintings of two (very different) storms over the moors and blanket bogs of the Pennines.
For interest... maybe to readers of The Book of Bogs and other peaty works.
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
@jensoilandpen.bsky.social
For interest... maybe to readers of The Book of Bogs and other peaty works.
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
@jensoilandpen.bsky.social
It's the red dawn of a brand new day. So far it is cool, calm and collected.
I hear stags roaring and geese honking, and the little river singing to the sea.
Views to the Torridon mountains from home - Baosbheinn, Beinn Alligin and friends 🥰
I hear stags roaring and geese honking, and the little river singing to the sea.
Views to the Torridon mountains from home - Baosbheinn, Beinn Alligin and friends 🥰
October 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
It's the red dawn of a brand new day. So far it is cool, calm and collected.
I hear stags roaring and geese honking, and the little river singing to the sea.
Views to the Torridon mountains from home - Baosbheinn, Beinn Alligin and friends 🥰
I hear stags roaring and geese honking, and the little river singing to the sea.
Views to the Torridon mountains from home - Baosbheinn, Beinn Alligin and friends 🥰
Scarista, Isle of Harris.
Wild, windswept and wonderful. With only a bevy of swans for company.
Yellow sands, lavender sea, solace and peace.
Wild, windswept and wonderful. With only a bevy of swans for company.
Yellow sands, lavender sea, solace and peace.
October 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Scarista, Isle of Harris.
Wild, windswept and wonderful. With only a bevy of swans for company.
Yellow sands, lavender sea, solace and peace.
Wild, windswept and wonderful. With only a bevy of swans for company.
Yellow sands, lavender sea, solace and peace.
Luskentyre. Naturally.
Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
October 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Luskentyre. Naturally.
Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
The stones of Calanais... brooding, magical, other-worldly... a remarkable place especially on a wild Hebridean day.
October 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The stones of Calanais... brooding, magical, other-worldly... a remarkable place especially on a wild Hebridean day.
In the tail winds (gales) of a diminishing storm (Amy).
A day when light, colour, sound and perspective play with the mind...
Sgarasta beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
A day when light, colour, sound and perspective play with the mind...
Sgarasta beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
October 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
In the tail winds (gales) of a diminishing storm (Amy).
A day when light, colour, sound and perspective play with the mind...
Sgarasta beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
A day when light, colour, sound and perspective play with the mind...
Sgarasta beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
Hmm... looking at the forecast for Storm Amy… she's a right b***h and makes Floris look like a real pussy. There's trouble coming.
October 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Hmm... looking at the forecast for Storm Amy… she's a right b***h and makes Floris look like a real pussy. There's trouble coming.
I wrote an essay on high altitude peat bogs in New Guinea for "The Book of Bogs"(edited by Anna Chilvers & @clareshaw.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social)
Here are a few pictures recorded on a life-changing research visit to the New Guinea Highlands when I was very young 😊
Here are a few pictures recorded on a life-changing research visit to the New Guinea Highlands when I was very young 😊
October 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I wrote an essay on high altitude peat bogs in New Guinea for "The Book of Bogs"(edited by Anna Chilvers & @clareshaw.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social)
Here are a few pictures recorded on a life-changing research visit to the New Guinea Highlands when I was very young 😊
Here are a few pictures recorded on a life-changing research visit to the New Guinea Highlands when I was very young 😊
An end-of-summer post about colour in our landscape 😊
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September 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
An end-of-summer post about colour in our landscape 😊
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