Live Your Life Be Free

Today's image was inspired by an article I read in the Saturday Review section of the Times about the British composer Erland Cooper.
Back in 1979 the author Kit Williams published a children's book called Masquerade. Within it's pages it contained 15 illustrative clues to the location of a golden hare, buried somewhere in Britain.
Erland Cooper has buried the master tapes of his new album (Carve the Runes Then Be Content with Silence), alongside a violin and the album's score, somewhere in the Orkney archipelago (with cryptic clues to it's whereabouts provided by his website). If it is found he will have no choice but to release the album straight away but if no one finds it within three years it will then be dug up and the music released as it is found - including with any damage to the sound of the tapes caused by being underground for all that time. He has called it "the ultimate collaboration with the landscape". It is an act that has been described as either admirable or insane. I think both!. I love a quirky story!
I couldn't quite stretch to master tapes of my Magnus Opus (apart from anything else I'm tone deaf, can't read music and could no more compose an album than climb Mount Everest!) so instead I have covered a Belinda Carlisle CD in bark chippings (sorry Belinda!) at the top of our garden for this shot (damn - I've given the location away already!). This was actually the first CD me and my brother ever bought - they were expensive back in the day so we could only afford one between us after having purchased a CD player! I'm sure Belinda would advise Erland to "Live Your Life Be Free".
No CD's were harmed in the making of this image.