Cairn and Terrace '05
Adam: Years ago I read a series of books all about a modern day man’s journey into another world using a large Cairn in Scotland as his portal. Since then I’ve wanted to build my own cairn.
On this land there are terraces built for hazel and apple trees. On a search around the land I found an old apple orchard, reminiscent of Celtic Apple isles of immortality. It was on this terrace that I decided to start my cairn, I took the largest rocks from around and built it. Since then everytime I visit it I take a stone along my walk and place it on my cairn. Visit by visit it grows larger.
My plans for this terrace is to gradually plant it up with trees and turn it into a forest. There are some very large pine trees around its edge, and younger ones growing on the terrace. There are also different oak trees, mainly Quercus ilex. There is also some large ash trees nearby, their branches reaching over the ground, where I’ve picked ash keys (seeds) and, later, planted them.
Now all of these little ash trees are growing in pots, but hopefully in the future I can take a few of them and plant them back in the Cairn Terrace. Along with ash trees, I want to plant other varieties too and encourage the trees that are already naturally growing there too. It could become a good place for deciduous broad-leafed trees to start spreading and hopefully changing the balance of this pine dominated valley.
The cairn may not lead to another world but the world around it is changing. I’ll publish more pictures in the future.
