Ploughing on

I always find there is something really fascinating about watching a field being ploughed, the way the plough cuts through the earth and turns it over. The daisies above hadn't quite been turned in.

You can see from the picture how sandy the soil on the machair is here. One of the reasons that there is always such an amazing variety of wildflowers on both the cropped and the fallow plots is because the ploughing is only shallow here meaning that the wildflower seed doesn't get buried, giving it chance to germinate. If you haven't seen the machair in full bloom in July you haven't lived, really, it's amazing!