Selkie Tales

I took a walk on the beach yesterday. It was a dull day, grey overcast sky but still: the sea, white sand, crushed seashells. And it reminded me of summer days gone by.


I love the colour of the sea in sunlight. The sun is so bright on this Island (well, when it’s actually there), white light, making the water glisten, sea green. Seals peeking their heads out of the water, watching you from the other side, just as you are watching them. Clouds are blown across the blue sky, racing past. The weather is changing with a blink of the eye. So often rain and sun at the same time, rainbows so close when you see them in front of your and yet hardly impressive in the picture you take with your terrible camera.

Projects and ideas are piling up in my head.

Between ravens and bears, Selkies seem to be rearing their heads.

Selkies of course are not from my native home, in Grimm country (otherwise known as Germany :o) we know mermaids and sea-monsters as well as water nymphs (Nixen) but we don’t know Selkies.

Selkies are creatures of the cold waters around Scotland and Ireland. And when I visit places like the Blasket Islands they don’t seem to be so far removed from our wold indeed.