IanStuartPhotography

Cherry amber burial beads from 5,700 years ago, Funnelbeaker culture, made of Conifer self healing tree bark resins since 90 million years ago. Neolithics animistically compressed cyclical time by firing resin in crucibles or sand pits. In the conifer marshes the deceased were garlanded with the trees creation and passing there. Their blood projected into permanent globules alongside vessels. Poeticised as tears of the sea and sun: “gemstones dropped
in the peat floe
like the bearings of history”, Seamus Heaney, Wintering Out.
Today, Conifers are celebrated as Christmas trees!

Girl with heart shaped balloon, blued detail.

Tapirs’ closest relatives are Rhinos. Their noses scent and grab for vegetarian foraging - or for snorkling swims! There is a world Tapir day for these unassuming and endangered forest and, here, Amazon jungle dwellers. Its thick coat protects from predators.This tapir looks like the recently identified Kabomani tapir, the first such, of five,species, since 1865.

Adam's Peak is a pilgrimage for Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Christians which children to grandparents do with wonderful community spirit.

Kutts live Manchester

Bands

Nehanda, spirit medium, Elysium Magna Dance Theatre, Zimbabwe.

To save her unwell child, the mother has just reached a Christian care centre.

Yes, you can do horse riding here across the highlands!