Orkney cottage

Weathered flagstones form the rustic stone-built Orkney Islands' coastal cottage, with a thatched-turf roof, heavy red-stained oak entry-way, and wisps of smoke rising from the stone chimney, amidst a dramatic rugged coastline of granite and basalt, where crashing cold turquoise waves meet the shore, sending sea spray high into the air. A tapestry of vibrant wildflowers surrounds the cottage, featuring Scottish primrose, wall-rue, lady fern, and brittle bladder-fern, with bursts of meadow buttercup, flag-iris, and marsh marigold, and sprinklings of sea thrift, marsh orchids, and red campion.