The corner of an old and low dry-stone building, perhaps intended as a barn or a tattie hoose. Now it’s growing a thick crop of hairy-looking green-grey lichen. It may or may not be ramalina farinacea; I don’t know much about lichen. It seems to love the Orkney coast. To the right some rough-looking green grass slopes down to the grey sea. The horizon is fuzzy with sea fog.

A closer look at the corner of an old and low dry-stone building, perhaps intended as a barn or a tattie hoose. Now it’s growing a thick crop of hairy-looking green-grey lichen. It may or may not be ramalina farinacea; I don’t know much about lichen. It seems to love the Orkney coast.