A boat trip into the grey archipelago. Pine and juniper clawing smoothly cragged spurs of granite. Dark bedrock isles parting the Baltic. Walking around the islands watching the tall reeds, grasses billowing. A naval fort lined with cannons set to seed with wildflower. Damp subterranean sleeping quarters. More faint smell of sea-weed rising from brackish water.

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A grave field at the height of Summer. Low sward of golden bunchgrass, green ferns in scrubby soil patches, long stretches of purple-grey heather. Bilberry ground cover at the woodland edges rich with berries. Surrounded by crooked stones marking the dead, ridged granite, bones of old kin.

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An undulating play of mountain pastures. A rocky reception at the summit. Heath-blooms unfurling hot chrysanthemum cliffs steeped in frothy rivulet.

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A brackish archipelago. Faint smell of sea-weed from tideless waters. Reeds and grasses billowing where polished bedrock plunges into the Baltic. A coastline of ash, beech, old growth oak. Stoney shores growing juniper, sloe, common heather. Linnets picking over bitter berries. Crowding scant mountain pine.

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A coastal shrub layer of juniper, sloe, packed culms of matgrass. Moraine mixed of boulder, stone, gravel, sand, silt and clay. A formless mass following the underlying bedrock. Two-point-five-million year granite, tundra polished smooth and round.

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A dry scrape of land reminiscent of smoke. Glacial grooves smoothed in frost-blasted granite. A shapeless moraine growing goldmoss stonecrop, purple loosestrife, seaside aster. Guarded by great black cormorants, a half-dozen species of sea-swallow terns.

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A spinney thicket, copse, clumped grove. Turning to low coarse land secreting golden meadow-sweet. Care-weed tied round stout oaks, their swollen trunks split
Open mossy mouths to speak.

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