(A hard-won life in the Mearns in the early part of the 20th century - love, death and everything in between)

I read Lewis Grassic Gibbon's seminal work over the course of a few days several years ago - it had me spellbound from the first page. It was a quite extraordinary book for its age; published in the lean inter-War years, Grassic Gibbon was not afraid to confront many taboo subjects - suicide, a dysfunctional family (incest is alluded to), death in the Great War...but despite these subjects this trilogy is a fantastic read, and (in my view) a very positive and human story

The trilogy consists of three books - Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, and Grey Granite. The idea for the shot came to me when I was shooting the glorious landscape and clouds over the fields running up to Toddington: "aHAAAAAA" I cried, "All I need now some rocks and a sunset!!" And so it happened :o) - I quite literally stumbled over the gravestones, and a couple of hours later, the briefest of sunsets appeared over the trees at the riding stables down the road. Please excuse the hint of colour in the 'Sunset Song' picture, but a colourless sunset is a bit pointless!! The EXIF shows today's date, but don't be put off - I presume it like that because that's when I created the triptych

Tuesday 26th's epic-rural-journey entry to the Challenge; click here for other monochromed Pbasers in January