Mount Maw

It was such a glorious day today and luckily on my day off! Wanting to make the most of it I went for a walk off West Linton, starting at the Baddinsgill reservoir, going on Mount Maw, the Mount, Wether Law, East Cairn Hill and joining the Old Drove Road at the Cauldstane Slap. A lovely walk - some steep parts, some boggy part, most of which were thankfully frozen, and an easy track to finish.. Django loved it too! 

Mary Oliver died today, aged 83, so here is one of her poems:


You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.