In the calm of Forneth fields

With stone dykes mossed

And ploughed fields hedged

Where the deer lies down with the hare

And the woodpecker gambols with squirrels

In the joys of nature’s play.

 

In branches over Lowes

Where a father hunts

And a mother feeds

The fledglings in their Osprey nest

But he’s out again in reconnaissance

Diving the dodging pike.

 

     Where the Tay flows through Dunkeld

     Under the stone bridge

     And history’s feud

     Where left and right are united

     In their view of the past and the future’s hope

     Of cohesive community.

 

    
     Up the winding glen of Quaich

     Where the heather waits

     For warmer days

     And the carol of searching bees

     That will swarm back to a waiting queen

     And the warmest of welcomes there.

 

July 2010

 

After visiting Paul and Ena Latham at Croft Cottage, Forneth, Blairgowrie.

For further pictures click here:   Perthshire - 2010