The Isle of Staffa is an uninhabited island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It is mostly rock which stands in columns. This picture is soft pastels on 9×12 sanded paper.

I got the photo from the book, Scottish Symphony. I get a lot of big old coffee table books with wonderful photography at thrift stores. Or I used to before the thrift stores around here decided to stop dealing in books. But, I still have the library book store. Yay!

There are few places in my life that I’ve found more ruggedly beautiful than the Highlands of Scotland. The place is magical – it’s so far north, so remote, that sometimes it feels like you’ve left this world and gone to another. – Julia London