Tràigh
15th September
Tràigh
Sandy Beach
/traːj/
From the land, comes the cloth, comes the language…
A crescent moon of bright gold lies between sage-green machair and a petrol-green sea. The golden white sand is scattered with bright pink wave-rounded shells and silver salt-bleached driftwood. Even from such a simple scene, it’s easy to see how the cloth comes from the land…
Our Gaelic Coastal Word of the Week comes from “Scotland’s Nature Agency, Buidheann Nàdair na h-Alba”
https://www.nature.scot/…/dictionary-gaelic-nature-words
Photograph by Lewis Mackenzie