Lichens stake their claim, millimetre by millimetre

Kinloch, Skye Though the land is deserted now, the signature of human habitation is deeply imprinted upon itHigh about the shoreline, looking across the Sound of Sleat, lie the remains of the township of Leitir Fura. Abandoned by their inhabitants in the early 19th century, the low stone blackhouses have been laid bare by the elements in the subsequent decades, their exoskeletons crumbling as – stone by stone – they return to the earth.Though the land is deserted, the signature of hu