This first image is from one of my favorite places in Oban, McCaig’s Folly—and the western highlands are one of my favorite places on Earth.
In Oban, gateway to the Hebrides…
…I’m sitting waiting for the ferry to Barra…
…when an email from my mother arrives.
She’s had her DNA read from a saliva sample.
It seems we are basically Finnish, with Siberian roots.
Which is interesting, because I’ve always felt…